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- From: da003b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Vogon Poet)
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- Subject: Re: Closing the Finder
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.204932.1109@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:49:32 GMT
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- In <BxIBwu.A5s@netnews.jhuapl.edu> avlb@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (A V Louis Biggie) writes:
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- >I am writing a Hypercard stack for students to run under System 7. Its
- >purpose is to allow them to access applications while preventing them from
- >messing with the desktop. (I know about At Ease, but the school district
- >cannot afford it!) Closing the finder does the trick, but has the drawback
- >of disabling DA's - in particular, the Chooser and the Scrapbook are needed.
- >I would be grateful for ideas on how to achieve the general objective of
- >locking the kids out of the desktop, but allowing them access to DA's. Would
- >starting the DA's before closing the finder help? Also, what could one do to
- >prevent those DA's from being closed and becoming unavailable.
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- >Louis
-
- Interesting problem... Here is one solution that would work but I highly
- discourage because it becomed very frustrating even for the administrators:
- Make everything on the desktop invisible by pasting in blank icons and name
- them all with different numbers of spaces. You cannot do this for the trash
- can, butif the only visible object on the desktop happens to be a locked
- alias for your stack (which could be placed in the menubar) you may not have
- to worry about it.
-
- I have seen this done before and the op. in charge of that particular set of
- stations is losing hair quickly.
-
- I would suggest guard-dog, a fairly cheap (it may even be shareware, I don't
- know) and easy to manage solution.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Darrell.
-
- Disclaimer: do this at your own risk.
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