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From: dwal@midway.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How to make AppleShare not to clear screen when boot?
Summary: It ain't easy.
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.002618.7020@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 00:26:18 GMT
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In article <37651@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) writes:
>A related question is whether there is a way to get some pesky
>startup icons to behave. I'm always annoyed at SUM shield which
>insists on drawing itself in its own special place instead of
>lining up nicely behind the one before it. Can someone tell us
>where this location is controlled so we can remove it with RedEdit?
>
>I do hope someone can address this important question of Macintosh
>functionality for me since I'm completely unable to work without
>knowing the answer ;-).

Guess you'll have to sell your Macintosh and get a 386 with Windows,
then...

The position of the INIT's icon is controlled in the INIT code.  A
procedure called ShowInit, by Paul Mercer (I think) from Apple, is what
an INIT calls to display its icon.  The parameters passed to that procedure
control the position of the icon:

	PROCEDURE ShowINIT(iconID: Integer; moveX: Integer);

You'd have to find the ShowINIT call and substitute a -1 in the moveX
parameter to have the SAM icon shift over correctly.  And that fix
assumes that SAM uses ShowInit; Symantec may do something completely
different.


David
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