Changing File Names from Answer Dialogs

[Yates, Glen]

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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