I figure that the sort of user who has not changed his system defaults (hiding 'hidden' files and hiding file extensions) is just the sort who might get confused about what to click on if he should inadvertently find his hapless self at the root of my CD! For him, something I have set as 'hidden' will in fact be hidden.
So, I routinely set everything at the root to 'hidden', except my projector (or a FastSplash executable that calls it) and, on rare occasions, some ancillary installer that the user might need outside my program. Everything works just fine. The 'hidden' property seems to make no functional difference. At 0827 -0500 11/04/2003, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: >... >On the root directory of my CD-ROMs, I typically have the projector and >next to it the autorun.inf and some dll's, etc. Does it matter if (on >Windows machines) these files sitting next to the exe are given the >attribute of hidden? Are there any considerations for that? My thought >is that it might make it more "aesthetic" if the user just doesn't see >these files. >... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
