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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:30:02 EST
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- From: "JENNIFER A. HEISE" <jahb@LEHIGH.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Please Help!
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- >Larry: Regarding writing a script for a book that readers are not
- >able to modify, there are several ways to do this. The simplest,
- >and the one I would start with, would be to go the properties menu
- >of the book and define a password that must be typed in for entering
- >the author mode. The much more elegant way to handle the problem,
- >once you have more time and experience, is to so modify the scripts
- >and menubar so that switching to author mode is not an option--the
- >switch to author mode is trapped in the scripts.
-
- I don't think this will solve your problem.
- Even in user mode only, users can type in any field unless the field has the
- "Activate Scripts" property set to true. (This is obviously a _Good_Thing_,
- when we are talking about interactive text fields-- "type your answer here"--
- and _Not_a_Good_Thing_ if we don't want this.)
-
- Does anybody have any scripts that could set a certain property of all the
- fieldds in a book without first knowing how many fields there are and what
- their names/ids are? Can this be done? Or must it be done by hand?
-
- Jennifer Heise Net: jahb@lehigh.edu
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- "The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes;
- The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad." Kipling
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