Changing location of desktop icons

I made a news ticker in director 11. I want to place it on
top of the desktop. I am doing it perfectly fine but i want to
change the location of the desktop icons so that no icons come
under my director window. How can I do it through Lingo? Can I
access the computer desktop through Lingo?

Interesting question. You might be able to find something in
buddyAPI, but I don't recall ever seeing a function like that...
or, if you can find a command line utility like NirCmd
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
then you could use Valentin's Shell Xtra
http://staff.dasdeck.de/valentin/xtras/shell/
to interface with the command line utility to move the desktop
icons around.... here's a similar question asked, but for someone
looking to do it programmatically:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/131690/how-can-i-programmatically-manipulate-windows-de sktop-icon-locations
It's an unusual question at best - I've never seen it asked
before here - so it's going to be likely that the solution will
require custom programming an Xtra or command line utility or
whatever to accomplish it.

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