Disabled files in 2.7 - Followup

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Feb 18 12:55:48 EST 2006


Mark Waddingham wrote:
>  Also, Revolution itself does not use either the extension nor the 
> creator or file-type to determine whether a file is a Revolution stack 
> or not. Instead, it checks the header to see if it conforms to the 
> file-format. This means that the engine will attempt to load any file 
> you give it as a stack file - and it will return an appropriate error 
> message if it finds that it is not. 

Provided of course that it uses appropropriate file filtering criteria 
for the GetFile dialog to make it possible to select the file.

 From Paul's description it would appear that the IDE isn't using the 
new "answer file with type" option introduced in v2.6 -- is that correct?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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