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Re: Filer-like behaviour on pinboard

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freak67@freakmail.de wrote:

>Hallo,
>
> a long time ago (some years), I read an article at "www.drobe.co.uk",
> where somebody had build a filer-like behaviour to the pinboard. He
> arranged "folders" and "files" in rows and lines at the desktop, if you
> clicked on them, they opened as new folders/files on the pinboard etc. The
> author explained, how it works, and I would like to know how he did that.

I haven't seen the article or the effect, but I do have code that I ran on
one machine which would build a grid of pinned icons in specific places. It
always removed each such icon before re-placing it, just in case any of them
had been dragged around the screen before the Obey file was run or re-run. 

The remove then place process also meant that I could run the file several
times while tweaking the x,y co-ordinate where things would be placed and
have all the previous set removed first.

I guess you could write some code that dynamically removed sets of pinned
icons and drew others in this way, if you could be bothered to.

An extract of my Obey file:

| Row 1 - XPin <path> <x> <y>    - x differences are because of icon widths
  RemoveTinyDir HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.StartP
           XPin HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.StartP 1040 1268

  RemoveTinyDir HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.!AntiSpJN
           XPin HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.!AntiSpJN 1160 1268

  RemoveTinyDir HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.!JNpntr
           XPin HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.!JNpntr 1320 1268

|Row 2 - XPin <path> <x> <y>    - x differences are because of icon widths
  RemoveTinyDir HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.WinOpn
           XPin HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.WinOpn 1024 1152

  RemoveTinyDir HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.!AntiSpQD
           XPin HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.!AntiSpQD 1160 1152

  RemoveTinyDir HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.RonOpn
           XPin HostFS::HardDisc4.$.MyFiles.RonOpn 1312 1152

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Filer-like behaviour on pinboard freak67@freakmail.de - 2012-09-20 12:32 -0700
  Re: Filer-like behaviour on pinboard Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-09-20 20:42 +0100
    Re: Filer-like behaviour on pinboard Cepheus <freak67@freakmail.de> - 2012-09-21 08:19 -0700
  Re: Filer-like behaviour on pinboard pdmiller1957@gmail.com - 2012-09-24 22:57 -0700
    Re: Filer-like behaviour on pinboard Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-25 10:13 +0000
      Re: Filer-like behaviour on pinboard Cepheus <freak67@freakmail.de> - 2012-09-25 08:13 -0700
        Re: Filer-like behaviour on pinboard Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-25 19:15 +0000
          Re: Filer-like behaviour on pinboard Alex Macfarlane Smith <nospam@archifishal.co.uk> - 2012-09-26 08:09 +0100

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