Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!uci-ics!ucla-cs!cs.ucla.edu!stiber From: stiber@cs.ucla.edu (Michael D Stiber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: WindChooser Problem (How do I install WDEFs myself?) Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 89 06:04:57 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA Machine Perception Laboratory Lines: 32 I would like to use WindChooser for the "Shrinker" WDEF, which seems quite handy with Multifinder. There's only one problem -- an incompatibility with DiskLock. For the uninitiated, Disklock unmounts the hard disks after a certain amount of idle time, requiring a password to remount them. The problem is that, after Disklock unmounts the disks, some event must take place that requires the WDEF to do something (most likely having something to do with blanking the screen -- my guess). My speculation is that WindChooser installs a patch which reroutes calls to WDEF #0 to the WDEF selected within it. Here lies the problem. After the disks are unmounted, calls to the WDEF apparently require accessing the WindChooser file. Since the hard disk is unmounted, this means we get a "Please insert disk FOO" dialog box, defeating the purpose of the screen blanking. I tried to unset the purgeable and set the locked bits in the WDEF, but this didn't solve the problem. So, my question is this: is there any good way to install the "Shrinker" WDEF into the system, so it will work just like the default one does, without interfering with DiskLock? I already tried just replacing the WDEF #0 in the system, but this didn't change the window appearances. Therefore, I have reasoned that the critical WDEFs aren't in the System. So, what's the technique? I thought that's where all of that stuff was kept? Thanks in advance to all you Mac gurus out there. -- Michael Stiber stiber@cs.ucla.edu UCLA Computer Science Dept. ...{ucbvax,ihpn4}!ucla-cs!stiber Machine Perception Laboratory 3564 Boelter Hall,Los Angeles, CA 90024