dawdy@tellabs.com (Dan Dawdy) (05/18/91)
I have two questions about icons. I start the clock and a CPU Usage Meter from the WIN.INI file. They load and appear on the bottom left. Is there a way to get them to load in a different position of the screen like clock in the upper right and CPU in bottom right, or do I always have to move them? The save feature when you exit Windows has no effect on loaded programs or icons. Also speaking of the clock or any other windows program...is there a way to show the icon without the description under it? It's easy on a non-windows program but I can't do it with a windows program. I can see it's a clock, I don't need the word "clock" under it. It kind of defeats the purpose of the icon in the first place. E-mail is fine or post to group. Thanks in advance, Dan dawdy@tellabs.com
colfelt@news.colorado.edu (COLFELT ANDREW BRINTON W) (05/19/91)
dawdy@tellabs.com (Dan Dawdy) writes: > I have two questions about icons. I start the clock and a >CPU Usage Meter from the WIN.INI file. They load and appear on >the bottom left. Is there a way to get them to load in a >different position of the screen like clock in the upper right >and CPU in bottom right, or do I always have to move them? The The load= objects are loaded in the order they appear on the load= line. The first loaded object is placed lower-left, and each successive program gets placed to the right of it, spaced according to Control Pabel, Desktop, Icon Spacing, until the right "margin" has been reached, whereupon the icons are wrapped to the next line up and back to the left. There is no way to position the clock in the upper right, unless of course you load so many things that the entire screen fills with icons; bottom left --> upper right. >windows program...is there a way to show the icon without the >description under it? It's easy on a non-windows program but I >can't do it with a windows program. I can see it's a clock, I >don't need the word "clock" under it. How do you do it for a Non-Windows program? Do you leave the Description line blank in File Properties? I should think this would work for Windows apps. and accessories also. Ah, I just checked to make sure. It has this annoying little tendency to force some sort of Description. I deleted Control Panel from the description, and when I OK'ed it, it came back with "Control." Then I tried it on Clock, and the "Clock" returned. Ah-ha, I say to myself, self: "Try making the description have some characters in it, but make them invisible!" Use a "Space." This is not the cleanest fix, because when the icon is active, the little highlight area around the description highlights the space. One highlighted space, however, I think is nicer than "Clock." Andrew colfelt@tramp.colorado.edu