Freeze Icon
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Is there anyway to freeze an Icon so that it can't be moved or relocated?
Robert
If you protect the ".info" file, the user cannot save a new location on
the disk (without de-protecting it), but I know of nothing that will make
the icon unmoveable on the Workbench. I suppose a hack could be made to do
it. Now the inevitable question: why? —Mike
How do I use protect on the "info" file?
Thanks
Robert
Each file that displays an icon (e.g. "FileName") has another file in the
same directory called "FileName.info". That "info" file contains the icon
imagery & position on the workbench, among other things. A "Snapshot" from
Workbench stores the new coordinates in this file.
To protect that file, you need to go into the CLI. Go to the directory
that contains the info file ("CD THEDIRECTORYPATH"), then type "protect
FileName.info -w". This deletes the "w" flag from that file, where "w" is
the flag that says the file can be written to. (Oh yeah, doing it this way
may only work using 1.3.) —Mike