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Re: Icon Placement

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From: COLFELT ANDREW BRINTON W
Date: Sun, 19 May 1991 06:21
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dawdy@tellabs.com (Dan Dawdy) writes:
>     I have two questions about icons.  I start the clock and a
>CPU Usage Meter from the WIN.INI file.  They load and appear on
>the bottom left.  Is there a way to get them to load in a
>different position of the screen like clock in the upper right
>and CPU in bottom right, or do I always have to move them?  The

The load= objects are loaded in the order they appear on the load= line.
The first loaded object is placed lower-left, and each successive program
gets placed to the right of it, spaced according to Control Pabel, Desktop,
Icon Spacing, until the right "margin" has been reached, whereupon the icons
are wrapped to the next line up and back to the left.
There is no way to position the clock in the upper right, unless of course
you load so many things that the entire screen fills with icons; bottom left 
--> upper right.  

>windows program...is there a way to show the icon without the
>description under it?  It's easy on a non-windows program but I
>can't do it with a windows program.  I can see it's a clock, I
>don't need the word "clock" under it.  

How do you do it for a Non-Windows program?  Do you leave the Description
line blank in File Properties?  I should think this would work for Windows
apps. and accessories also.  

Ah, I just checked to make sure.  It has this annoying little tendency to
force some sort of Description.  I deleted Control Panel from the description,
and when I OK'ed it, it came back with "Control."  Then I tried it on Clock,
and the "Clock" returned.  Ah-ha, I say to myself, self: "Try making the 
description have some characters in it, but make them invisible!"

Use a "Space."  This is not the cleanest fix, because when the icon is active,
the little highlight area around the description highlights the space.  One
highlighted space, however, I think is nicer than "Clock."

Andrew
colfelt@tramp.colorado.edu
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