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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Icon grid in Finder
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Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 00:03:29 EDT
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>In my version of finder (5.3) file icons always snap to a grid
>same as the clean up. Is there a way to disable this and/or to
>change the spacing of the grid?

Yes, you can do either or both with ResEdit, changing the Finder's LAYO #128
resource.  Later ResEdits have a resource template for LAYO resources. The
"snap to grid" is a button near the bottom of the list; the grid size is in
there and the grid offset is there too:

     xxxx                 xxxx
     x  x                 x  x
     xxxx       xxxx      xxxx
                x  x
                xxxx

There is a known bug if you set the offset to be exactly half the grid size,
this will kill things.

A MacUser article in the issue previous to the one just out covered this
resource in some detail.

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc. (SDA - Tektronix hasn't yet made public a position statement
                       on resources, Apple, bits, or even the Danatist
                       controversy.  The above opinions are somebody's.)