Saving App-Specific Docs

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Tue Sep 26 08:42:18 EDT 2006


Ooops, just noticed in the Docs, there's an encode function you can hijack.

Cheers,

Luis.


Luis wrote:
> I suppose you could use a .rev file, and have the textual data embedded 
> in it.
> I just tried opening a .rev file in TextEdit: Some things are readable, 
> others are erm... weird.
> Other than that is create your own extension, like a mydoc.whatever and 
> only read from those files with that extension: But you'd have to create 
> your own 'encoding' in order for it to not be opened/understood by any 
> other app. A text file can be opened by any text editor, regardless of 
> the extension, so here is where encoding will obfuscate the data.
> 
> Any bit shifting of the file data or shifting the character set would be 
> the easiest way to do this, IMO. Just remember that you have to reverse 
> the process to get the stuff back out!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Luis.
> 
> 
> Trevor Hopkins wrote:
>>> From a Rev application, how does one go about creating and writing 
>> to/reading from a document that is only openable by the Rev app itself 
>> (i.e., not a text document that anyone can open). I can see how to 
>> write data to a text document but what about to another type of doc 
>> that not anyone can get into so easily?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Trevor Hopkins
>> Exeter, UK
>>
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