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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Icon grid settings, Finder 7/6.1.x
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.171513.3435@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 15 Apr 91 05:15:13 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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I've been trying to reconfigure my Finder 6.1.7's LAYO resource so
its icon grid is consistent with the default positioning in Finder 7.0b4.
I managed to come up with the following figures:

	Icon horizontal spacing: 64 pixels
	Icon vertical spacing: 52 pixels
	Icon vertical phase: 26 pixels

However, it is NOT SAFE to configure Finder 6.1.x with these settings!
I've been getting frequent hangs trying to do it.

The problem is that Finder 6.1.x can't deal with settings where the
vertical phase is exactly half the vertical spacing. If you set it off
by 1 pixel (e g change the phase distance to 25), it seems to work OK.

PS: I like the feature in Finder 7 where holding down the command
key temporarily *toggles* the state of the "always grid drags"
setting--that is it turns it off if your default is to have it on.

Here's looking forward to the official release...

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-71-562-889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-71-384-066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand    37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00
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