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From: seibel@bbn.com (Fred Seibel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Changing userLevel
Message-ID: <51012@bbn.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 14:05:02 GMT
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I have been experimenting with using mouseEnter and mouseLeave to change the
visibility and contents of a bg field to indicate to the user the action that
would occur when the mouse is clicked.  It works fine except that the changes
to the card cause the disk to updated alot.

So I thought about temporarily locking the stack to silence the disk.  This
works, but I have not been able to figure out how to perform the locking from
Hypertalk.  If anyone knows how to do this I would appreciate the tip.

In the course of this experimentation, I also played with changing the
userlevel.  Unfortunately setting the level to browsing doesn't have the
desired effect, the disk still updates.  However, much more distressing was the
fact that for one reasonable valuable stack, I chose "browsing" from the
"Protect Stack..." Menu.  This seems to be irreversible. No lock appears.

now from msg box I get the following behavior

set userLevel to 5
get UserLevel
it
1

If anyone could suggest how to undo this I would be indebted.

Fred
seibel@bbn.com