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Subject: RE: desktopfolder
From: "Joseph Claeys" <joseph at claeys dot com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:37:14 -0500
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Thanks,

So is desktop folder still a property of the folderitem class on Windows as
the language reference suggests?  

~ joe
 

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[mailto:gettingstarted-bounces at lists dot realsoftware dot com] On Behalf Of 
Phil
Mobley
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:12 AM
To: Getting Started
Subject: Re: desktopfolder

On Oct 29, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Joseph Claeys wrote:

> I tried the follow code (from the language reference) using RB 5.5.3 
> on WinXP(SP2)
>
> ...
>
> F=volume(0).desktopfolder

The Desktop Folder is a Macintosh invention.  On Windows (especially W2K and
higher) there is no concept of a volume desktop folder, hense the Nil
object.  Instead, there is only a user space desktop folder.

In fact, it is rare even on the Macintosh to need to explicitly access the
DesktopFolder of a Volume.  Most of the time you would want to access the
User Desktop folder which will be the ~/Desktop for OS X.  
For OS 9, the DesktopFolder object automatically defaults to the
Volume(0).DesktopFolder (unless Multiple Users is enabled).

As Will mentioned, just use the DesktopFolder object.

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