On Sep 30, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
On 9/30/05 1:15 PM, Patrick McClaughry didst favor us with:
That's a great question. From my reading of DesktopServices, no, the
name-lock Finder flag is no longer consulted under X. Note that I
didn't try this first hand yet though.
The Finder ignores it. Is this a bug, another classic feature
that's been
quietly dropped, or one of those "we haven't decided what to do
about it"
issues? I'm not just asking out of curiosity. My application let's
people
see the name-locked bit, but if it's been declared permanently
deprecated/obsolete I want to remove that from my application.
Larry
I have examined all the Finder* sources going back to 9.0 and the
isNameLocked bit in the FinderInfo was lost in the transition from 9
to X 10.0. By all indications the loss was unintentional (a bug) and
there is no reason I can see why we could not return to checking the
bit. Of course the bit is just one of the now various reasons the
user might not be able to rename an item, but that's not a surprise,
I imagine, to anyone on this list.
* I say 'Finder' when in fact under X this is really DesktopServices,
the private framework used by the Finder and Nav and Open/Save. Under
9 it really was the Finder proper that inspected this data. I cannot
comment with certainty about what DesktopServices plans to do or not
do since DesktopServices != Finder but Laurence's bug has been routed
to the correct place.
\pat
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