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Index › Programming Questions & Help › Other Libraries › Getting the coordinates of icons on my desktop

jamsaver YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Getting the coordinates of icons on my desktop Apr 9th, 2008, 5:38pm   Hi guys, I was wondering if there was a way of getting the coordinates of icons on my desktop in to processing?Like an external library or something? thx

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: Getting the coordinates of icons on my desktop Reply #1 - Apr 13th, 2008, 1:45pm   I think you can't do that. It strongly depends on the OS you are using.

jamsaver YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: Getting the coordinates of icons on my desktop Reply #2 - Apr 13th, 2008, 2:35pm   I will use OSX leopard mostly,no windows... I was thinking about contantly taking screenshots of the desktop and analyzing its pixels to find out the coordinates.. any other ideas?