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Re: Stopping double clicking of a file
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Re: Stopping double clicking of a file


  • Subject: Re: Stopping double clicking of a file
  • From: development2 <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:14:59 -0600

Well never mind I thought Apple might make this kind of easy to override. But I will have to do something different in the app to fix this properly.

thanks.

On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:46 PM, I. Savant wrote:


Regardless of being able to keep from double-clicking via Carbon, how do you account for an AppleScript opening the file. How about the command line "open /Path/To/File.ext"? What about someone using a text editor (or an editor of their choice) that can open any file via "File|Open" or by dragging the file onto the app's icon? I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to open a file. You *won't* secure your data this way.


If your issue is privileges (ie, you don't want certain people opening the file), you most definitely are going about this the wrong way and this can definitely be handled by properly configuring your file permissions on the server in question. You will need to go back to basics and learn how to properly make use of user/file permissions to solve this problem correctly.

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I.S.


On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:24 PM, development2 wrote:

Sorry can't do that. These files are all stored on Windows servers, and they need to be able to create new files, delete files, etc.

I have to disallow the file form double clicking. It can be caught, at least in carbon I have done that in the past.

Thanks,

On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Hank Heijink wrote:

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems a strange way to go about it. Why don't you just use file permissions to deny certain users access to a file? I would imagine that permissions for users, groups, and others offer enough flexibility to solve this without trying to modify the user interface at such a basic level.

Hank Heijink
www.hankheijink.com
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On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:07 PM, development2 wrote:

Hi,
I need to turn off the ability to allow users to double click on a file and have them open it up. There are security reasons for this, as we do not want to allow students to open up the file and change grades or attendance. So we have to go through our login procedure that allows the teachers or administrators to open the file. But I can not see anyway to turn this off. I know in Carbon this is done through Apple Events, and ma sure that it is done the same way with Cocoa. I have looked on Apples site and searched this list, but have not be able to find the answer to this.


Thanks in advance for any help.


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