Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!rutgers!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Deleting Cards Unintentionally
Message-ID: <16311@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 88 02:08:25 GMT
References: <13631@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <65844@sun.uucp> <16219@apple.Apple.COM> <2815@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <16309@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Lines: 24

In article <16309@apple.Apple.COM> dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen) writes:
>In article <2815@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
>>2.  How come the "can't delete" bit for backgrounds and cards is not a
>>    a scriptable property?
>
>Good question.  Look for it in a future release.  A script should be
>able to get and set the "can't delete" bit.
>
>Dan Allen
>Apple Computer
>
>

I KNEW I WAS TIRED!  After answering this piece of mail I then read
Peter
"Arrgh" Korn's description of using the cantDelete property of cards,
backgrounds, and stacks.  The reason I FORGOT about this property was
that I came up against this problem in the early days of HC and I was
one (of many) that got it stuck into 1.2.  Therefore, ignore my response
and just get 1.2 and you'll have scriptable "can't delete" bits.

Using this new property is described in the 1.2 Release Notes Stack.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer