Custom Desktop Folders

[Ray]

Weird isn't it?  I may have mentioned this,too, but after I manually 
change the Folder Picture via the properties window at the desktop 
everything works great from within Livecode if I create folders of the 
same name at the same path.  I'm naming my folders a single capital 
letter as I test and I'm all the way up to 'M' since I've /used up/ all 
the previous letters as names.

I think there's something going on in the registry.

On 4/17/2015 9:17 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> I'm not positive, but I THINK when you put files into the folder, it makes
> adjustments so that a) it still kinda shows your icon, while b) its trying
> to show previews of whats in the folder.  I'm not sure this is what you're
> seeing, but it sounds right.  I think there was a way around this behavior,
> (assuming my guess is right), but I'll have to try to remember what I saw.
> (probably another setting in the desktop.ini)
>
> Unfortunately, its not behaving the same for me.  Maybe its a random
> feature!
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Ray <ray at linkit.com> wrote:
>
>> I see.  So there are three different states of this check box: empty,
>> checked and "squared".  That's a new thing for me.  I always thought there
>> were just two states of both check boxes and radio buttons, but I think I
>> can handle that.  Thanks for laying it out.
>>
>> On another note, I've discovered that while the desktop icon I assign to a
>> folder is there when I first create the folder and set it all up, it
>> shrinks the instant I write or copy a file into the folder, either through
>> Livecode or manually on the desktop.  Do you know why this might be
>> happening?
>>
>> I only see the icon I assign when viewing by medium and large icons.
>> Could this have something to do with it?
>>
>>
>> On 4/17/2015 8:52 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>>
>>> If you notice, when you set the read only aspect of the folder using the
>>> shell, then look at the properties of the folder, the box isn't checked.
>>> Its greyed out. This is because you set the folder itself.  When you use
>>> the checkbox in the proprieties inspector for the folder, you're actually
>>> setting the rules for the contents of the folder, not the folder itself.
>>>
>>> I suspect, if you create a folder, then check that box, then check its
>>> attributes from the shell (attrib foldername) that the folder itself won't
>>> show R as one of its attribs. The checkbox isn't doing the same thing as
>>> the shell call.
>>>
>>> Freaks me out a bit actually!
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