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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Re: Amiga questions
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Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 08:17:24 EST
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> 
> 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

  Note that the easiest way (and the fastest) to do this is to hold down the
  shift key and then select *all* of the icons in the window. Then you need 
  only snapshot once. 

> 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 :-).
> 
> 	Andre DIDELOT				CHUNET: andre@cui.unige.chunet

--Chuck McManis

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