Setting a dirty flag for a file

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Charles,

Isn't it sufficient to simply no close the file until you're done? You might need to keep records of open files, but if you do this properly, you could open them once and close them all when your app closes or if the user closes some window.

on openSomeFIle
  open file gFile
  // do stuff
end openSomeFile

on closeStack
  close file gFile
end coseStack

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On 21 jul 2011, at 20:45, Charles Szasz wrote:

> I am using Rev. 4.0. How do you set a "dirty flag" for a data file that that has been saved but still open in your app stack?  My app creates a data file that saves the contents of 16 fields. I have code to show an initial save dialog when the user makes changes. I want to use a dirty flag to show another save box only when closing the file if the user makes subsequent changes in the data file.  Otherwise when the user closes the data file without additional change no save dialog will be presented.
> 
> Thanks for your time! 
> 
> Charles Szasz
> cszasz at mac.com
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