Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cmcl2!vx2!spector From: spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Accessing the user's name from the Chooser Message-ID: <6860007@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> Date: 4 Jul 88 19:34:00 GMT References: <250@wjh12.harvard.edu> Organization: New York University Lines: 21 The item you're looking for is a 'STR ' resource in the system file, it's ID is -16096. It can be accessed with the resource manager. But it's probably not a good idea to go changing it under the nose of the chooser. That's what the chooser is there for. Some AppleTalk programs use the UserName string as the basis for registering names on the network (I do...), and might get confused if they need to access the name again, and its been changed. What I do is ask the user to select the chooser to set the user name if the string is nil... David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David HM Spector New York University Senior Systems Programmer Graduate School of Business Arpa: SPECTOR@GBA.NYU.EDU Academic Computing Center UUCP:...!{allegra,rocky,harvard}!cmcl2!spector 90 Trinity Place, Rm C-4 HamRadio: N2BCA MCIMail: DSpector New York, New York 10006 AppleLink: D1161 CompuServe: 71260,1410 (212) 285-6080 "What computer puts out work like this?" "Hire us and we'll tell you." XYZZYGLORP