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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Control Panel Positions
Message-ID: <51111@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 08:35:57 GMT
References: <1908@camex.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1908@camex.COM> kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) writes:
>For you 7.0-smart people: When I open a pre-7.0 control panel under
>7.0b4, a window opens.  I can move the window, close, and reopen it,
>and it will appear in the new position.
>
>How did that happen?  Is the Finder keeping track of every single
>Control Panel it has ever seen?  (And what keys force a rebuild of the
>control panel cache?)
>

  The Finder writes the window positions of control panels and desk
accessories into a 'fwst' resource in the actual file.  It's 22 bytes long,
but I'm not sure of the exact format of the data in it.

  -- Dean