Add file to Custom Property

[J. Landman Gay]

Bill Vlahos wrote:
> The data will be stored in a different stack. How does that make it 
> different?

Where the file is stored doesn't matter. The issue occurs after 
extraction; you have content in a variable at that point, and almost no 
apps will open content that is in memory (outside of pasting from the 
clipboard in some cases.) If you are using the "launch" command then the 
file absolutely needs to be on disk.

In some cases, if you know what file type the content is and you know 
which app needs to open it, and if the user has that app on disk, and if 
that app is scriptable, you can use AppleScript to transfer the content 
in RAM over to a new document. You may also be able to do the same with 
a VB script on Windows (but I don't know much about VB, so I'm not 
sure.) But this approach depends on knowing a lot about the file content 
itself and the content of the user's drive, and won't always be dependable.

Rev has the ability to open stacks from RAM. So the one exception to the 
above would be if the stored content is actually a stack file. In that 
case, you can extract it, use the "go stack" command, and Rev will open it.

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