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Figure 3-8 Submenus
The Snapshot item is one that uses a submenu. Keeping the menu button down, you can highlight the submenu items as you would regular menu items.
Snapshot Window: Choosing this item saves the current position and dimen sions of the active window. When you next open this window, even if you have subsequently moved or resized it, it will appear in the same place and at the same size as it was when you took the snapshot. Snapshot Window works only on the window itself; it doesn't affect the icons within windows. Snapshot All: This item saves position information on both the active win dow and its icons. It is the natural adjunct to the Clean Up item, because it lets you make permanent that function's changes. For the most part, when ever you access Clean Up, the next thing you should do is access Snapshot All. Note: Snapshot works on true icon files (.info files) only. It does not work on the pseudo-icons created with the Show All Files item discussed below.
Show: Through version 1.3 of Amiga OS, you could not view files without complementary .info files from Workbench. Because the information Work bench needs to draw icons is contained in .info files, such files never appeared on the Workbench interface. The Show item changes that. It gives you the