Each system - whether it is win, mac, or linux - displays (desktop) icons at a user selected size (e.g., 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, etc.)
How can I find which size is being used by the local system from within Flex or ActionScript3?
thanks,
Mark
A:
system icon sizes can be set at many different sizes. for example, on my mac i have my desktop icons set to display at 70x70. also, windows vista/7 supports icon sizes up to 256x256 while Mac OS X supports icon sizes up to 512x512.
if you need to find the users settings, you'll have to call a native process from an AIR native installed application to read the users system preferences.
EDIT------
here's an example of my com.apple.finder.plist, which holds the value of my desktop icon size (it's 68x68).
TheDarkInI1978
2010-10-24 23:13:07
TDI1978, thanks for the feedback. I have since learned how to read a Win registry value to get this info ( see http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet4296.htm ). I have no familiarity with Mac... any idea how I would gather that info on a Mac?
MCE
2010-10-26 04:39:54
well, the info can be found within the xml preference file for the Finder, which is located at ~User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist, under the icon size key. i've posted a screenshot of mine to my original post (my icon size on my desktop is 68x68) but i'm not familiar with how to receive that value using native processes on mac.
TheDarkInI1978
2010-10-26 14:34:34