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From: daven@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Discrepancy in icon positioning in Finder 7.0
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.195851.2082@svc.portal.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 19:58:51 GMT
References: <2510.2767525d@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Dec13.221550.19121@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1990Dec14.181409.1772@svc.portal.com>
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In article <1990Dec14.181409.1772@svc.portal.com> leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
> In article <2510.2767525d@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> >Specifically, within every disk or folder window, the icons representing
> >files and folders are offset down and to the right when viewed with
> >Finder 7.0. The distance looks like about 16 pixels down and 16 pixels
> >right--that is, something like half the height and width of an icon.
>	Unfortunately, at least as of System 7.0b1 there is no longer a LAYO
>resource.  You can only set 'staggered' or not in the 'Views' control panel,
>but you have no control over the 'staggering'.  I assume that there is a
>new piece of info that controls this information, and I HOPE that there will
>be some way to change the staggering (since the current style is icky), but
>I have yet to find a way (I also haven't spent much time ;-)

I take a close look at the 'fval' resource in Finder under System 7.0. The
latest versions of ResEdit has a template for 'fval' resources that shows
that most of Finder's view attributes are probably controlled by this resource.

Hard to tell though, since I've not had the time to play with it yet.


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