How do I stop app's files from being opened by Rev?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/6/03 5:08 PM, Barry Levine wrote:

> I'm guessing that, on the Mac, I'd drop the two apps inside the 
> "package" of the app. I remember seeing a reference how to do this in 
> the list and I'll search for it.

That's probably a good way to do it. If you are distributing for OS 9 
though, there is no package. One way to handle it is to assign a 
different file type code to the stacks. That way Rev won't allow the 
user to select them in a standard file dialog, but it can still open 
them from a script.

> On Windows, I haven't a clue.

I don't know if this is kosher or not, but I usually just assign a 
".dat" extension. Windows thinks the stack is a data file, it gets a 
generic icon, and it doesn't seem to get in the way of anything. If you 
want to be really sneaky, password-protect the stacks. Then if someone 
opens them in a text editor, they look like binary files and no text is 
visible.


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