pwu@uwmacc.UUCP (Peter Wu) (10/22/86)
In my version of finder (5.3) file icons always snap to a grid
same as the clean up. Is there a way to disable this and/or to
change the spacing of the grid?
peter
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You can turn off (or on, of course) the grid-snap feature and change the grid size using the ResEdit program. You should open up the LAYO resource in the FINDER file. There are a few other options that you can twidle with too (like having it not ask about trashing applications...) -- michael
briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm) (10/24/86)
>In my version of finder (5.3) file icons always snap to a grid >same as the clean up. Is there a way to disable this and/or to >change the spacing of the grid? Yes, you can do either or both with ResEdit, changing the Finder's LAYO #128 resource. Later ResEdits have a resource template for LAYO resources. The "snap to grid" is a button near the bottom of the list; the grid size is in there and the grid offset is there too: xxxx xxxx x x x x xxxx xxxx xxxx x x xxxx There is a known bug if you set the offset to be exactly half the grid size, this will kill things. A MacUser article in the issue previous to the one just out covered this resource in some detail. -Brian Diehm Tektronix, Inc. (SDA - Tektronix hasn't yet made public a position statement on resources, Apple, bits, or even the Danatist controversy. The above opinions are somebody's.)