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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Locking the "chooser" user name?
Message-ID: <7739@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 22 Jun 89 01:31:17 GMT
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Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <23016@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
>Probably the best solution is to set
>the protected bit _and_ change the chooser edit text item into a static
>text item.

Juri, I already dealt with that.  The Chooser *makes* it an edit text
item no matter what the dialog template says.  I don't know whether
that's through a SetDItem or if it's a side effect of calling SelIText
on a static text item, but all it does is make things even more confusing
for the user.  There's a thing that looks like a static text box but
responds to input like an edit text box.  (Including setting the name
as usual in the resource, or in RAM only if the resource is protected.)
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