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In article <5.25D80193@imagery.FIDONET.ORG> Jim.Spencer@p5.f22.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Spencer) writes:
>
> >This is easy.  Using ResEdit, open the DITL corresponding to the Chooser.  I
> >can't recall which one it is just now, but it's in the System file and is
> >something like -3999.  In any case, once you've opened that DITL find the 
> >text item that one would type the username into and change it from
> >Editable Text
> >to Static Text.  Now, noone will be able to change it.  We use this at our 
>   
>This of course is not worth a whole lot if the goal is to be able to identify
>users that you don't trust.  It will take all of about 5 minutes for these
>people to figure out that ResEdit can be used to change the field back to
>EditText. :)

True, Jim, but I'm dealing here with people for whom a Save dialog is a major
stretch.  I recently had one user ask for help finding her IBM graphics work,
which had seemingly disappeared from her 3.5" floppy.  The disk kept coming
up with "General Failure reading drive A:" errors on the PC.  Turns out she
had tried to save some Mac work on the same disk and had, of course, 
initialized the floppy when the Mac suggested this action.  Somehow I don't
think users like this are going to have much luck bringing ResEdit to bear
on much of anything.  8)

Anyway, i think the original problem had to do with just preventing casual
change of the Choosername in a public lab, so that the Choosername was kept
as something more informative to the lab monitor than "Rock On!!" or such.

<chaz>