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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Changing userLevel
Message-ID: <37963@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 23:05:47 GMT
References: <51012@bbn.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <51012@bbn.COM> seibel@bbn.com (Fred Seibel) writes:
>...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.

Try setting the cantModify property to true.

> ...     for one reasonable valuable stack, I chose "browsing" from the
>"Protect Stack..." Menu.  This seems to be irreversible. No lock appears.

To get to the Protect Stack dialog, hold down the command key while pulling
down the File menu. If you do this, the full menu appears arnd you'll be
able to access the dialog.

The level set in Protect Stack is basically a "cap" on the user level
allowed while in that stack. This is why you couldn't set the userLevel
back to 5 from the message box; the requested level was higher than the
level allowed in the stack, and so the set command was ignored.
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