Subj : Icon position.
To   : Ian Moote
From : David Noon
Date : Fri Jul 07 2000 12:59 pm

Hi Ian,

Replying to a message of Eddy Thilleman to Ian Moote:

 IM>> Where does the WorkPlace Shell store icon positions? Are there WPS
 IM>> calls to manipulate this value?

 ET> I think in the OS2.INI or in the OS2SYS.INI file?

I should have answered this when you first asked. Sorry.

The WPS stores icon positions in an extended attribute of the containing folder 
-- either a file system folder (i.e. directory) or abstract folder (also a 
directory, but managed slightly differently). The name of the extended 
attribute is, unsurprisingly, .ICONPOS and its format is _undocumented_ in the 
OS/2 DTK. If you bump into a guy named Henk Kelder on the Internet, he might be 
able to tell you the layout. [I doubt it will ever change now.]

Regards

Dave
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