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Article #46096Re: How does a program find out the (Chooser) User Name?
From: David M. O'Rourke
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 02:43
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 02:43
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dave@utzoo.uucp (Dave Sherman) writes:
>How does an application or INIT find out what name the user
>has entered as User Name in the Chooser? This doesn't appear
>to be documented anywhere.
Here's some code that I use to do it:
procedure GetChooserName(var theString : Str255);
const
ChooserNameID = -16096;
var
TempString : StringHandle;
begin
TempString := GetString(ChooserNameID);
theString := TempString^^;
end; {GetChooserName}
>Thanks.
Hope this helps.
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