On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Alexander Bokovikov wrote:
Maybe it's a stupid question, but I can't find a solution... I'm
dragging files from my app to desktop. All goes OK, but file icons
are located one exactly above another if I'm dragging many items. As
a result, few extra clicks on desktop are required to be able to
split these icons.
The question is, how could I assign icons location for dropped
items? I believe, though didn't yet tested it, that similar problem
will be with Finder window, when it is in icons mode. The only point
where I could get such information (as I believe) could be
tableView::namesOfPromisedFilesDroppedAtDestination: method, but it
doesn't contain any information about icons location.
I don't believe there is a (public API) way to set (or get) the
location of an icon. If I read the first part of your message
correctly, though, this isn't necessarily what you want. You only want
them to tile / snap to a grid, right?
Are you saying that, even with the snap-to-grid setting enabled for
the desktop (this is not the default), the icons don't snap to the
grid when dropped from a promised drag? I'd file that as a bug.
In any case, you might be able to ask AppleScript to "clean up" the
Desktop folder. I don't know if this is scriptable but it's worth a
look. You'd want to first select those icons then "Clean Up
Selection" (as the View menu item is called when there is a
selection). I caution against "cleaning up" the entire desktop as
those with OCD may not appreciate their pixel-perfect toils to align
to a grid.
Then again, if they're truly OCD, I think they wouldn't mind a
perfectly-aligned grid so much ... :-)
--
I.S.
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