Re: lock down features

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 08:38, Glynn Foster wrote:

> MacOSX has a little lock icon whenever the preferences are locked down -
> this to me was a pretty nice touch, although a little unobvious at first
> that you were unable to lock it by clicking on it and entering in a
> password.

I'd be interested to have a look at it and see how well it works on the
Mac, but some potential niggles could be:

- some controls might not have an obvious place to put the lock icon
(e.g. a toolbar button)

- if most of the controls in a dialog are locked, it could look pretty
messy

- it could mess up your layout somewhat, unless you designed-in a space
beside every control where the icon might go if required.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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