Custom Desktop Folders

[Mike Bonner]

h is the hidden attribute. so +h should hide it.  Weird.  Going to try it
real quick (win 7)..

Ok. I got the attribs to set by doing them one at a time.  Not sure why 2
at once doesn't work.

I also read that the folder must be set to read only.

SO I did attrib +r to the folder and poof. Icon.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Ray <ray at linkit.com> wrote:

> Mike - I've eliminated all spaces in the path but thanks, that's always a
> good thing to check.
>
> At this point nothing I do flips the Attributes from "A" to "HSA". I've
> changed the minus to a plus sign and tried Klaus' concatenation syntax but
> still no change in the Attributes.
>
> Maybe I should also be changing the visibility of the file first. When I
> set the folder icon manually the system does that.  Do you know of a way to
> change visibility via the shell function?
>
> On 4/16/2015 11:05 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
>> oh yep, and as klaus says, if theres a space somewhere in the path, you'll
>> need to force quotes around it, or use shortfilepath() to obviate the
>> need.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Klaus major-k <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Ray,
>>>
>>> did you try with QUOTES?
>>>
>>>  Am 16.04.2015 um 23:00 schrieb Ray <ray at linkit.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Klaus - thanks for the idea.  Just to check my method of concatenation,
>>>>
>>> the exact command I'm using is:
>>>
>>>>       get shell("attrib -HSA "&desktopIniPath&"")   -- where
>>>>
>>> desktopIniPath is the path to the file
>>>
>>> get shell("attrib -HSA "& QUOTE & desktopIniPath & QUOTE)
>>>
>>>  It doesn't work and I see no change in the file's Attributes, Type or
>>>>
>>> Size.  Livecode returns nothing in the result.
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>>
>>> --
>>> Klaus Major
>>> http://www.major-k.de
>>> klaus at major-k.de
>>>
>>>
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