Is there a way to auto-fill the user login name upon opening a secured application? If not, this would be a handy extra feature sometime down the road.

I would like to use a startup switch in the Windows shortcut (or INI file setting) to pass just my login name, not password, to the dialogue box that pops up when opening the application.

This is, of course, a matter of laziness on my part. I don't want to always type my name and password, just my password. If another user were to be logging in, they could simply change my 'default' name.

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

Though, I still think it would be a handy feature for Sesame to have.

Bharat_Naik wrote on Feb 13^th, 2008 at 10:03am:

Good idea!

Works nicely from a desktop shortcut with a target of:
C:\Sesame2\Program\sesame.exe Data\TestApp.db -macro Data\TestMacro.mac

This solves my initial request. Although I've since implemented a different way to acheive my original goal (for my own applications), this gives me an idea for a client where we want to keep the design protected, but allow any employee access to the data.

In my own applications, my original use for a login was simply to provide a way to put the name of the person adding or making changes to the records, into a field with the use of @UserID, not to enforce any kind of security. I now display a list of names with @PopupMenu() when the app opens, and place the answer into a ClientLocalValue() for use where I was using @UserID. This eliminates the need to type a name, which is what I was really looking for.