Changing File Names from Answer Dialogs

[Ken Ray]

Actually, this has worked in versions of WIndows going back quite a ways (I
think even Win 95 did this to some degree). It's just a facet of the
operating system; without "rolling your own" dialog box (which you *can* do,
BTW - all the tools are there to do it), you are stuck with what the OS
gives you.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yates, Glen" <JAMES.G.YATES at saic.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: Changing File Names from Answer Dialogs


> This behavior is not unique to Windows XP or Metacard, it works like this
in
> Windows 2000 as well, and for all apps that use standard file dialogs. I
> discovered this quite by accident about a week ago, as I accidentally
pasted
> a filename into the wrong place, well, not thinking that the filename
would
> actually be changed, I then pasted the text into the filename box and
> pressed the save button, thus overwriting the contents of the file that I
> had just inadvertently renamed.
>
> -Glen
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ray Horsley [mailto:ray at linkitonline.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:05 PM
> > To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> > Subject: Changing File Names from Answer Dialogs
> >
> >
> > I've just purchased a new laptop with Windows XP Pro on it, and I was
> > horified to find out that I can change file names from the
> > Answer Dialog
> > when ever I use it in MetaCard scripts.  Does anybody know of a way to
> > prevent, through MetaCard, users from being able to do this
> > (without getting
> > into 3rd party security software or security settings in Windows XP)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Ray Horsley
> > Developer, LinkIt! Software
> >
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