How to set desktop shortcut (icon) position

[Louis LaBrunda]

Hi All,

I would like to set desktop shortcut (icon) positions from Smalltalk code.  I think this can be done with windows API calls and that VA Smalltalk has ways of making these calls but I don't know what calls to make or how to get started.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Lou

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

Hi Louis,

I don't know which is the Windows API for it, but as for calling it from VA, you may want to take a look to OSCall, OSHandle, PlatformFunction, etc... 

Cheers,

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[Louis LaBrunda]

HI  Mariano ,

Thanks for the reply.  I am, in a general sense, familiar all those classes.  This is really less of a VA Smalltalk question and more a Windows API question.

I can get what I think is a handle to the desktop with OSHwnd getDesktopWindow.  There are other Windows functions like HdmGetitemcount, LvmGetitemcount and TcmGetitemcount that I think should get a count of the desktop shortcuts but every way I try to use them returns zero (0).  So, if someone knows ho to do this from a C (or other) program, an example would be a big help.  Thanks.

Lou