Re: Renaming a file repositions icon in Finder
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sean McBride s...@rogue-research.com wrote: On 5/8/09 2:52 PM, Jim Turner said: It appears that renaming a file will cause the Finder to reposition the icon for the file if it's currently displayed in a icon view somewhere. Is there any way to prevent that from happening? It looks very strange to have icons jump all over the place just because of a rename. Thinking that it might have been the method with which I was renaming the file, I tried NSFileManager's moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:, rename(), and FSRenameUnicode() and all three exhibit the same problem. Many apps exibit this problem and it has driven me and others nuts for years. Do file a(nother) bug. -- Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada If anyone would like to me-too my me-too, it's rdar://problem/6874498 -- Jim http://nukethemfromorbit.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Renaming a file repositions icon in Finder
It appears that renaming a file will cause the Finder to reposition the icon for the file if it's currently displayed in a icon view somewhere. Is there any way to prevent that from happening? It looks very strange to have icons jump all over the place just because of a rename. Thinking that it might have been the method with which I was renaming the file, I tried NSFileManager's moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:, rename(), and FSRenameUnicode() and all three exhibit the same problem. -- Jim http://nukethemfromorbit.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Renaming a file repositions icon in Finder
On 5/8/09 2:52 PM, Jim Turner said: It appears that renaming a file will cause the Finder to reposition the icon for the file if it's currently displayed in a icon view somewhere. Is there any way to prevent that from happening? It looks very strange to have icons jump all over the place just because of a rename. Thinking that it might have been the method with which I was renaming the file, I tried NSFileManager's moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:, rename(), and FSRenameUnicode() and all three exhibit the same problem. Many apps exibit this problem and it has driven me and others nuts for years. Do file a(nother) bug. -- Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Researchwww.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
