Password protecting to hide data

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Wed Jan 23 17:23:01 EST 2002


On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 02:15  PM, I wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Richard D. Miller wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in this idea of password protecting the stack, but it's 
>> not
>> clear from the documentation how this is done.
>
> It's pretty straightforward:
>
>    set the password of stack myStack to mypassword
>
> Make sure you save your stack to have the password applied.
> Then, to "unlock" a stack via script:
>
>    set the passKey of stack myStack to mypassword
>
> To remove password protection from a stack:
>
>    set the passKey of stack myStack to mypassword
>    set the password of stack myStack to empty
>
> And save.

I suppose it's worth mentioning that I do all this stuff from the 
message box -- these script snippets are not to be placed in your stack.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director, Tactile Media
scott at tactilemedia.com
http://www.tactilemedia.com




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