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In article <1993Jan3.073519.1235@parsec.mixcom.com> 
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes:
>
> Is there a way of messaging the Workspace to be in UNIX
> Expert mode? (Is there a way of finding out what messages
> the Listener responds to?)  

I'm not sure if there's an officially documented way to do it,
but there's no black magic involved and it's not very complicated.
All you need to do is set the preference in the defaults database,
then use the NXWorkspaceRequestProtocol method to notify the 
workspace that the defaults database changed.  

The following function should do just that.

void setUnixExpert(BOOL expert) 
/* Requires NS3.0 or greater (for NXWorkspaceRequestProtocol) */
{
  const char *unixExpertValue = NXGetDefaultValue("System", "UnixExpert");
  const char *newUnixExpertValue = expert ? "No" : "Yes";
  BOOL changeDefault = (unixExpertValue == NULL) || 
                (strcasecmp(unixExpertValue, newUnixExpertValue));
   
  if (changeDefault) {
    NXWriteDefault("System", "UnixExpert", newUnixExpertValue);
    [[Application workspace] defaultsChanged];
  }
  
}

Cheers,
Bob
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