Where does the WorkPlace Shell store icon positions? Are there WPS calls
to manipulate this value?

TIA and TTYL.

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Am 24.06.00 14:22 schrieb Ian Moote

Where does the WorkPlace Shell store icon positions? Are there
WPS calls to manipulate this value?

To set a position you must be an wpFolderObject and override the wpSetNextIconPos().

To change a currently existent Position you must drag&drop it.

You has no chance to do that outside WPS.

This example shows how you can use the wpInitIconPosData, wpIdentify, wpQueryIconPosition, and wpFreeIconPosData
methods to find the icon position information for all objects within a folder.
In this example, somSelf contains the pointer to
the folder being examined.

BOOL bSem;
WPObject *Object;
CHAR szIdentity[CCHMAXSTRING];
POINTL ptl;
ULONG ulIndex;

/* Retrieve the icon position information for all objects within
* the folder */
_wpInitIconPosData(somSelf);

/* Find the every object within the folder */
bSem = !_wpRequestObjectMutexSem(somSelf,SEM_INDEFINITE_WAIT);
for (Object = _wpQueryContent(somSelf,NULL,QC_FIRST);
Object;
Object = _wpQueryContent(somSelf,Object,QC_NEXT));
{

/* For each object in the folder, find the position of its icon
* in an Icon View of the folder */
if (_wpIdentify(Object,szIdentity))
{
if (_wpQueryIconPosition(somSelf,szIdentity,&ptl,&ulIndex))
{
/***** ptl contains the position of the icon for this object *****/
}
}
}
if (bSem)
{
_wpReleaseObjectMutexSem(somSelf);
}

/* Free the icon position data structure */
_wpFreeIconPosData(somSelf);







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Hello Ian,

Saturday 24 June 2000 14:22, Ian Moote wrote to ALL:

Where does the WorkPlace Shell store icon positions? Are there WPS
calls to manipulate this value?

I think in the OS2.INI or in the OS2SYS.INI file?


Greetings -=Eddy=- email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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Hi Ian,

Replying to a message of Eddy Thilleman to Ian Moote:

Where does the WorkPlace Shell store icon positions? Are there WPS
calls to manipulate this value?

I think in the OS2.INI or in the OS2SYS.INI file?

I should have answered this when you first asked. Sorry.

The WPS stores icon positions in an extended attribute of the containing folder
-- either a file system folder (i.e. directory) or abstract folder (also a directory, but managed slightly differently). The name of the extended attribute is, unsurprisingly, .ICONPOS and its format is _undocumented_ in the OS/2 DTK. If you bump into a guy named Henk Kelder on the Internet, he might be
able to tell you the layout. [I doubt it will ever change now.]

Regards

Dave
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Saturday 24 June 2000 14:22, Ian Moote wrote to ALL:

Where does the WorkPlace Shell store icon positions? Are there
WPS calls to manipulate this value?

I think in the OS2.INI or in the OS2SYS.INI file?

Hey, Eddie!

Sorry for the lengthy delay in replying. Technical problems with the
feed which lasted in excess of two weeks, followed by a very busy
personal life. [:)

So you think it's the .INI files, eh? Hmph. I'm a little surprised, but
I guess it makes sense from a point of view.

Thanks. Take care and TTYL.

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Where does the WorkPlace Shell store icon positions? Are there
WPS calls to manipulate this value?

I think in the OS2.INI or in the OS2SYS.INI file?

I should have answered this when you first asked. Sorry.

No problem. Sorry for the long delay -- technical problems and a busy
personal life myself. [:)

The WPS stores icon positions in an extended attribute of the
containing folder -- either a file system folder (i.e. directory) or abstract folder (also a directory, but managed slightly
differently). The name of the extended attribute is, unsurprisingly, .ICONPOS and its format is _undocumented_ in the OS/2 DTK.

So _that's_ where it is!! I was under the impression, for some reason,
that it would be an extended attribute, but it didn't occur to me that
it would be one of the _folder's_ EA's.

Thanks a lot, David. This will get me going, I'm sure. Take care and
TTYL.

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Hello Ian,

Friday 28 July 2000 20:49, Ian Moote wrote to EDDY THILLEMAN:

Sorry for the lengthy delay in replying. Technical problems with the
feed which lasted in excess of two weeks, followed by a very busy
personal life. [:)

Ah, I wondered why it took you so long to reply. :)

So you think it's the .INI files, eh? Hmph. I'm a little surprised,
but I guess it makes sense from a point of view.

Later I saw a reply from David Noon, who says the icon positions are stored in the EA's of the Desktop directory or its appropriate subdirectory.


Greetings -=Eddy=-

email: ethilleman@zonnet.nl
e.thilleman@hccnet.nl
eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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Where does the WorkPlace Shell store icon positions? Are there
WPS calls to manipulate this value?

To set a position you must be an wpFolderObject and override the wpSetNextIconPos().

Heh -- you probably don't remember this. It's from one month and seven
days ago. [:) Your reply to my question was sitting un-noticed as an
insecure packet on my system. Sorry 'bout that.

Thanks for this additional piece of information. I've squirreled it away
with the other replies that I recieved and I'm sure it will come in
handy.

I just didn't want you to think that I had been ignoring you. Take care
and TTYL.

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