Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!claris!peirce From: peirce@claris.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Accessing the user's name from the Chooser Keywords: chooser, driver Message-ID: <3619@claris.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 17:58:43 GMT References: <250@wjh12.harvard.edu> Reply-To: peirce@claris.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA Lines: 13 In article <250@wjh12.harvard.edu> rjw@wjh12.UUCP (Russell J. Wilcox) writes: >Does anybody know if there is a way to access the user's name from the >Chooser? You'll find this in the System file as STR number -16096. The following code is all you need since the system's resource fork is already open for you... userName := GetString(-16096); Of course, you shouldn't use STR -16096 in your application's resource fork for something else :-) -- michael