TrustedPath
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- Subject: [mg123484] TrustedPath
- From: Tom De Vries <tidetabletom at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 05:28:16 -0500 (EST)
- Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com
Hello! I am wondering if someone can help with an obscure question. I am bundling together a large group of files using the CDF format. My students don't have Mathematica so I save the files in CDF format and the students use CDFPlayer to view them. I've found that the things that trigger the "This file contains potentially unsafe dynamic content" can be really simple. Linking to a Quicktime movie, using File operations to open another notebook, etc. I completely understand the need for security, so I am happy Wolfram is making sure bad things don't happen. However... this is going to drive my students crazy. The index I've created links many notebooks, and this message gets triggered often, and it becomes a pain. Since there are going to be many sets of notes, it won't be like saying "Enable" once and then good to go. Each new time a file gets opened, it's the same routine... I'm sorry that there isn't a setting in CDFPlayer that allows for a global.... "yes , I trust this collection of files". Fumbling around as I often do...., I found a solution that works on a Mac, and wondering if PC users can chime in with something similar..... While running the CDFPlayer I found you could go to "About CDFPlayer", ask for System Information, and digging around gave me some directories CDFPlayer trusts... One of those was the "application package". So, on a Mac, I could open this package, give my permission to move in my set of lesson files, and bliss.... Is this a reasonable solution? Can PC users do something similar? I.E. is there a simple place to put a set of TRUSTED FILES, where they could be opened and worked with without getting a warning all the time. And finally, is there an easier way to do this? I suspect, reading about textbook publishers and developers using CDF, there must be some way to deal with this issue? Sorry for the obscure questions, I'm hoping some other users have some advice about this. Sincerely, Tom