Editing Netscape 2.02 in Windows 95 w/Borland C++ 5.0

[Farris, Peter]

I've also using Borland C++ 5.0 to edit Netscape Navigator 2.02 for   
Win95, and ran into these problems. I've found a workaround for item 1,   
by setting the bookmark file to "read-only"; users are able to add   
bookmarks, but the bookmarks file reverts to the saved version when   
Netscape is closed. I keep a copy of the bookmark file on my own hard   
drive, though, just in case...

Regarding item 2, I decided to grey out the Windows menu completely. You   
could, though, , not grey it out, and set your preferences for news and   
not for mail. That would give access to news and not mail. You'd need to   
grey out the Options menu, as well, and grey out items in the dialog   
boxes related to sending mail and setting mail prefs. For what it's   
worth, we allow users to send mail, but not to set prefs. And we make   
certain not to allow Netscape mail to save the mail password!

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Peter Farris
Information Services Librarian
Barnett-Briggs Medical Library
University of California, San Francisco

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Sent:  Wednesday, July 31, 1996 1:43 PM
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Subject:  Editing Netscape 2.02 in Windows 95 w/Borland C++ 5.0

Has anyone on the list tried the above combination?  We adapted the
instructions available at the WEB4LIB web site for the above, but have
run into two major anomalies in regard to the menu bar.
1) After setting the "Add bookmarks" item to greyed or disabled, it still
shows up active.
2) The only item that shows up under the Window menu item is "New
Window".  I have looked in all of the other resources thinking that it   
was
somewhere else as a submenu.  However, I have not been able to find
the menu items that list "Netscape Mail, Netscape News", etc.  We can
completely grey-out the Window item entirely, but that's not what we
really want to do. We'd like to make news available, but restrict mail.

If anyone else has tried this or has any suggestions, please let me know.
When I get this figured out, I will post the updated instructions to the   
list.

Thanks,
Frank Cervone
Assistant Director for Systems
DePaul University Libraries
2350 North Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
312.325.7000 ext 1114 (312 becomes 773 after October 12, 1996)
312.325.7869 (fax)