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From: andre@cui.UUCP (DIDELOT Andre)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga questions
Message-ID: <137@cui.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 18:51:23 EST
Article-I.D.: cui.137
Posted: Fri Feb 28 18:51:23 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 23:47:38 EST
References: <5016@alice.uUCp> <213@oberon.UUCP>
Reply-To: andre@cui.UUCP (DIDELOT Andre)
Organization: University of Geneva/Switzerland
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Keywords: info files

In article <213@oberon.UUCP> spencer@oberon.UUCP reply to <5016@alice.uUCp> :
>
>> option in Preferences. Now, whenever I open my Workbench icon, all the
>> other icons (AmigaBASIC, CLI, Trash, etc.) are all piled on top of each
>> other, and the drawers are halfway out the window. I rearrange them, save
>> the INFO option on the disk icon, EVERYTHING- and it still makes a mess.
>
>icon info for the disk that appears when the disk is inserted.  When
>you move an icon you must save the info file for it again.  This is a
>pain, if you use the clean-up option you must select each icon and
>then save the info file.  If you want to save the position that the
>window opens, that is saved by selecting the disk icon and save the
>info for that (select get info and then click in the save box).  There

At the time, nobody commented this, so here is a simple way to rearrange
your icons in any window of your choice:
1)open the window whose content as to be rearranged
2)rearrange its content; use the "cleanup" menu item as many times you need
  to get the job done faster; fix the proper size of the window accordingly;
3)move the window where you want it to be when it will be opened
4)select each inner icon in turn and use the "snapshot" menu item to save its
  location within the window
5)select the icon of the window you just rearranged and use the "snapshot"
  menu item to save size and location of its associated window
After that, you can close the window; it should now be ok when you re-open it.

Note that above procedure didn't work on version 1.0; it looked like if there
was a "loop feed back", because icons never stayed where they were supposed to
be (but luckily enough, I got 1.1 before loosing all my hairs :-).

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