Custom Desktop Folders

[Mike Bonner]

Looks like setting the folder to read only does NOT make it impossible to
write into the folder. If you use the properties dialog, that is not the
case, so using attrib is the way.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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