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From: wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Locking the "chooser" user name?
Message-ID: <100@sdacs.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 19 Jun 89 17:44:57 GMT
References: <1889@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
Organization: UCSD Academic Computing Services
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In article <1889@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>, keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC) writes:
> Open this file with ResEdit, and edit the 
> dialog box which contains the template for the chooser's main
> dialog....
> .....it should look familiar when you see it.
> Expand the dialog box & put the edit text field for username
> out of the original rectangle;  then close back to normal 
> dimensions.  Voila:  all the items are present bu the
> user cannot edit the field.  (My thanks to Chuck Hutchins,
> the Apple Education Coordinator here, for this idea).

An alternative might be to change the field type to 'static text' instead of
'editable text'.  That way you can actually see the chooser name
yourself if you need to check the machine to make sure it has not been
changed, without having to run ResEdit...

Wade Blomgren
wade@sdacs.ucsd.edu