Finding what has been pinned

Is there a way to find out what has been pinned (using a Pin command), or a way to find if a particular item has been pinned?

Could you alias the Pin command to trap pins, or might you start monitoring after the event?

I was about to suggest sending a SaveDesktop mesage to the pinboard and parsing what it output, but I’ve just discovered that Pinboard doesn’t output anything to the SaveDesktop file any more!

It does remind me that there used to be a way to save the Desktop, but maybe that was RO4. For sure I can’t find it now.

Clicking Menu over the Pinboard and saving the Pinboard produces an Obey file with the answers.

It’s in here

It does remind me that there used to be a way to save the Desktop, but maybe that was RO4. For sure I can’t find it now.

Click Menu on the Tasks window. In RO4 that is available directly from the Task Manager iconbar icon menu, but ROOL obligingly corrected this in OS5.

Clicking Menu over the Pinboard and saving the Pinboard produces an Obey file with the answers.

I might be wrong, but I got the impression Dave was trying to do it programatically, not manually. Is there a way to force the Pinboard to generate that Obey file without manually clicking a mouse button (or simulating a mouse click)?

but I got the impression Dave was trying to do it programatically,

That is my understanding also, but if the Pinboard module can find the info to write to a file then it could be possible to write/copy some user code to do as required in this case.

I got the impression Dave was trying to do it programatically

I am indeed.

Click Menu on the Tasks window.

Of course. Thank you, David. In fact, click Menu on the Pinboard’s background.

if the Pinboard module can find the info to write to a file then it could be possible to write/copy some user code to do as required in this case.

Or not. As far as I can see there really is nothing within the Pinboard module that is externally accessible.

No SWI’s certainly, just service numbers and *commands exposed.

Module info
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Title : Pinboard
Help : Pinboard 1.05 (16 Nov 2019)

Flags :
Can be started as an application.
32-bit ready : Yes

Services :
Has RISC OS 4 style fast service handler.
&11
&27
&49
&4A
&4B

No SWIs provided by this module.

Commands :
Desktop_Pinboard
AddTinyDir
RemoveTinyDir
Pinboard
Pin
BackDrop
PinboardOptions

Perhaps Pinboard 2 exposes more?