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- From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Screen Saver Code?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.133943.569@otago.ac.nz>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:39:43 +1300
- References: <1jft2nINNcls@zephyr.grace.cri.nz> <C11CxM.2JL@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole) writes:
- [...]
- > As for zapping out access to the Finder and the application menu, you really
- > don't get that sort of power from an application.
-
- Actually, it's fairly easy to program this into an application --
- I did it last week. Hiding the menu bar is a bit dubious,
- involving low-memory globals, but once you've done that, it's
- easy to stop the user switching to the Finder -- just create a
- window slightly larger than the GrayRgn (so it covers all
- monitors) and splat it on the screen. With the menu bar gone, the
- user can't do much of anything >:> Oh, except a forced quit of
- course, but even _I'm_ not crazy enough to try and patch that
- out...
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