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

[Alex Rice]

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 04:08  PM, Barry Levine wrote:

> I've created a standalone app with two other stacks that "belong" to 
> that app. I'd like to prevent Rev from opening either of those two 
> files. In fact, Furthermore, I want those files to be opened by the 
> standalone procedurally from within the app and -not- by a 
> double-click on either file.
>
> I can't make these two stacks sub-stacks as information contained 
> within the stacks must be modfied and saved periodically.
>
> 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.

I think that by putting the file into the application bundle it's kind 
of "off-limits" and if the user double-clicks it that's their problem.

> On Windows, I haven't a clue. I don't want to change which program 
> opens the file because that seems to change it for all Rev files on 
> the drive. As I said, I want to control what gets opened and when from 
> within the main app.

Toss it into System/Win32 isn't that what everyone else does? Kind of 
joking. There is probably somewhere safe under UserName/Documents and 
Settings/Application Data/YourSoftwareName/

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com