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From: kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Sys7 LAYO help
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.114829.2030@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 11:48:29 GMT
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In article <1614@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, hooverb@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Bruce Hoover) writes:
>From article <4cJEj3_00Vpc84240I@andrew.cmu.edu>, by es2j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward John Sabol):
>> I know there is no LAYO resource in the new Sys7 Finder. But someone please
>> tell there is some way of changing the Finder grid spacing. My theory is that
>> it is possible, and that the resource to be changed is "fvew". What I
>> want is to change the grid so that it is the same as is was in Sys6. I'd
>> appreciate any help. Thanks.
>
>If someone knows how to do this, I would really like to know too. I have
>found a LAYO resource in the SYSTEM file in 7.0, but when I use ResEdit
>to change the numbers for the spaceing, it seems to have no effect. Do I
>need to change something else as well? Other things in the LAYO in
>SYSTEM seem to take effect when changed, such as snap to grid.
>
>I really want my old spacing back!!!

I too am looking for the equivelent of the old 'LAYO.'  Many of its functions
seem now to be in the 'fval' -- i think spacing was one of them.  But how does
one manipulate those numbers?

Bob Kosovsky   bitnet:  kos@cunyvms1.bitnet /internet:kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu