AppleWorks Icon does not stay in the same position after saving

Question

After I installed AppleWorks 6.2.8, each time I save the file (word prosessor or data base) the icon on the desktop always moves to the right side of the screen below the hard drive icons. If I drag it to different position, then save the file it will move to the right side of the screen. If the saved file is in a folder, it always goes back to it's origional position. In fact, the same thing happens to other applactions (PhotoShop, TurboCad, etc.). This only happens in OS 9.2.2. It does not happen in OSX 10.4.6. The same situation also happens on my iBook and PowerMac G4 MDD after installing AppleWorks 6.2.8.
My System: PowerMac 7300, Sonnet 1GHz G4, 1GB memory, OS 9.2.2, OSX 10.4.6
I checked the AppleWorks preferences and Control Panels and could not find any settings.
This does not happen with AppleWorks 5.
Anyone know what has happened? Are there settings I am missing?
Much Thanks,
Gene
  Mac OS 9.2.x  

Answer 1

Hello
If I remember well, AppleWorks 5 was saving one document by rewriting the old one. Doing that, all the file's attributes where kept.
AppleWorks 6 writes an entirely new file, so the icon is not preserved. Of course, some of us think that it would have been a good idea to keep the parameters of the old file and "paste" them to the new one.
I wrote a script doing that but it is not perfecly stable.
For my own use, I build an alias of every file to which I want to give an icon. The file itself doesn't keep the icon (and its position in the window) but the alias keep it.
If you are really bothered by the standard icon, create a subfolder in which you store the documents and use these two scripts.
--[SCRIPT hideIt]
set leDossier to "Macintosh HD:Users:yvankoenig:Desktop:documents AppleWorks:"
try
tell application "Finder" to set name of folder (leDossier & "masqué") to ".masqué"
end try
--[/SCRIPT]
--[SCRIPT unHideIt]
set leDossier to "Macintosh HD:Users:yvankoenig:Desktop:documents AppleWorks:"
try
tell application "Finder" to set name of folder (leDossier & ".masqué") to "masqué"
end try
--[/SCRIPT]
You will see the aliases with their icon and the true file will be safe in the hidden subFolder.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 10 septembre 2006 20:44:29)