Text fields that are not modifiable

[Bikeman17]

Lately, i shipped a runtime solution to a client. After launching the program, the first page asks for the user name, company name and registration number which I provide with the cd-rom.

This client told me that when she wants to enter any information in those fields, a message told her that the fields are not modifiable.

Those fields are text fields. I tested the solution as if I was the client and it worked just fine. I asked her to send me back the solution. In the mean time, does someone have an idea?

Bikeman17

[Anatoli]

Probably the file is still Read Only (set by the CD).

[Bikeman17]

The woman copied and pasted the solution's folder on her computer's hard disk. How can she change that? Did I make a mistake when I burned the cd?

Bikeman

[andygaunt]

Is it pc based.

If so, highlight the files and right click and choose properties. Uncheck read only.

If mac, CMD & I for info and uncheck read only.

If you zip or stuffit before burning to cd, when unzipped at the other end will not have this problem.

HTH

[danjacoby]

Not to harp on this, but...

This is a Windows bug! Any time you copy a file to a CD, and then download it onto a Windows machine, it will be read-only. This doesn't happen with a Mac.

Andy's solution of compressing the files gets around the problem -- the ".zip" file will be read-only, but who cares? It's the ".fp5" files that are important, and when you decompress them they'll be unaffected by the trip through CD-Land.

Now, back on my soapbox:

Microsoft has no problem with this, and according to the people I talked to, they have no plan to fix it. They don't even understand why this is a problem. They also don't believe that Apple has done them one better on this issue. And yet they have 95% of the market.

H.L. Mencken wrote "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the masses." The success of many movies, political figures, and operating systems merely proves him right.

[SteveB]

Dan:

Give it a rest already...if you want to *** and moan, try getting on your soapbox about the bugs in Filemaker!