Reply To: Setting a document as read-only

[mag3737]

Look at ReadOnlyContainer, another read/writeable property on Selection/Range objects.  Setting it to true will make everything in that selection's container read-only.

Setting the WritePermittedContainer flag to true allows you to create “islands of writeable” inside read-only containers.  In some quick testing just now, it looks like this can even be done *before* setting the read-only property on the outer container.

Both of these properties get reset throughout the document if you leave Normal/TagsOn view.

As for the beep, I'm not sure how to do that.  Default behaviour is that XMetaL will display an alert when the user tries to type in a read-only area.

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