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Title: Wandering Icons
Post by: Prmetime on September 23, 2003, 09:49:59 PM

Hi,
  I have OS3.9 and I have had it for years.  Unfortunately, the icons for the various partitions of my hard drive rarely stay where I want them.  I want the icons for RAM, OS, Work, and Storage down the left side of the screen.  Yet the OS icon will drop to the bottom of the stack and nothing I can do will get the icons to stay in the order I put them in.  Does anyone have any ideas on what may cause this and how to fix it?  

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: x56h34 on September 23, 2003, 09:59:06 PM

AFAIK, you should position your icons according to your preference, and then select them all, and then snapshot icons. If we are talking about icons in a window, select contents, snapshot icons, then snapshot window.

It wasn't always as percise as I wanted it to be, but it has helped somewhat by using the above-mentioned method. I think that you can't really manipulate where the RAM drive icon should be.

All in all, a very good question. Anyone else with some hints?

This reminds me of something which I wanted to know. How do I make the names of ICONs to be without the gray (default) background? When ever I would put a nice backdrop in OS3.9 I would always get the ugly gray background behind the letters of the names of all the icons on the desktop. I'd just like them to be backgroundless so to speak. :-)

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: lempkee on September 23, 2003, 10:34:46 PM

if u want to place ram icon somwhere else , snapshot it ..

go to ram:  copy the info file over to env:


cheers

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: Lo on September 24, 2003, 12:54:22 AM

@primtime,

  Post your stats, (fast or slow system? RTG?) etc.
I leave the upper 3 slots or so open for CD Roms with longer file names personally, but there must be better ways.  A LOT of people who post here tired of this subject, but the replies are always "fun". :crazy:

Good question even these days...

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: xyth on September 24, 2003, 01:37:14 AM

@x56h3:

If you load up the font prefs and then open the requestor to choose the icon font you should see a 'Mode' cycle gadget with the options 'Text' and 'Text+Field'

Setting this to 'Text' should get rid of the text background.

This is for OS3.5 but I'm sure OS3.9 will be the same/similar.

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: Ancalimon on September 24, 2003, 03:21:03 AM

There is a better way to snapsot Ram Disk icon.
(Using OS3.9+bb2)

You shoul have at least makelink 45.0 (24/12/00)

Put this into your user startup

C:Makelink RAM:disk.info ENVARC:SYS/def_RAM.info soft

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: Druideck on September 24, 2003, 06:28:08 AM

i guess  this makelink will then save the ram
icon position whenever you snapshot it without going
and physically copying it into ENV: everytime?

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: Chunder on September 24, 2003, 10:00:33 AM

I've found that it's important to ensure that you leave enough room between the icons.

There may appear to be enough space, but WB doesn't agree and rearranges things in order that there's enough room between them all.

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: Ancalimon on September 24, 2003, 04:50:26 PM

Druideck:  Yes that's right. And you can change the icon too.

Title: Re: Wandering Icons
Post by: x56h34 on September 24, 2003, 05:41:07 PM

Quote

xyth wrote:
This is for OS3.5 but I'm sure OS3.9 will be the same/similar.

Thanks for the tip. I did not know that. I'll give it a try tonight. ;-)