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From: juh@cs.hut.fi (Juha Hyv|nen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Position of Trash Can
Message-ID: <JUH.90Sep17095455@hutcs.hut.fi>
Date: 17 Sep 90 07:54:55 GMT
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In-Reply-To: robol@cs.vu.nl's message of 14 Sep 90 13:32:43 GMT

In article <7568@star.cs.vu.nl> robol@cs.vu.nl (Rob Laan) writes:
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!  On large screen dragging a file to the Trash Can in the bottom right
!  corner of the screen can be quite a drag. I would like to have the
!  Trash Can somewhere in the mid-top area of the screen.
!  Of course I can drag the Trash Can to this position every time after 
!  startup,
!  but it would be nice if I could somehow redefine the startup position of 
!  the Trash Can.
!...........

The following was posted to USENET last year. Try it at your own risk,
of course...

>From: freek@mel.fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
>Subject: Re: Icon Loaction on Desktop
>Date: 5 Aug 89 15:39:53 GMT
>
>The location of the Trash is relative to the lower-right corner of the
>screen.  The offset of the upper-left corner of the Trash icon with
>respect to this point is stored in the last four bytes of CODE segment
>number 3, that is the one called "Init".  (I only looked at version 6.1
>of the Finder.  I don't know about older versions.)
>
>More explicitely (on my SE):
>					y coordinate	x coordinate
>					============	============
>lower-right corner of the screen:	 342 = $0156	 512 = $0200
>last four bytes of CODE resource 3:	 -58 = $FFC6	 -56 = $FFC8
>					------------ +	------------ +
>upper-left corner of Trash icon:	 284 = $011C	 456 = $01C8
>
>Notice that both offsets are negative, and that the vertical offset is
>stored first (because that is the proper order for Points).
>
>I hope this helps.  Greetings,
>
>Freek "Digitalistengebroed" Wiedijk               Path: uunet!fwi.uva.nl!freek
>#P:+/ = #+/P?*+/ = i<<*+/P?*+/ = +/i<<**P?*+/ = +/(i<<*P?)*+/ = +/+/(i<<*P?)**
>


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