Add file to Custom Property

[Bill Vlahos]

The data will be stored in a different stack. How does that make it  
different?

Bill Vlahos

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On Mar 13, 2010, at 6:08 PM, "J. Landman Gay"  
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> Bill Vlahos wrote:
>> The goal is to allow the user to save a file of any format,  
>> encrypted, and password protected. Therefore Rev can't be counted  
>> on being able to display it.
>> I know I could save the file to disk and then issue an open command  
>> but that would leave a copy on the disk. Is it possible to present  
>> the file from Rev so that the program (Word, etc.) would be able to  
>> open it directly without saving it to disk first?
>> The following example writes the file from the custom property to  
>> disk and then launches it:
>> on mouseUp
>>   put the uFileStore of button "Save File" into URL  
>> "binfile:ScreenShot.png"
>>   set the filetype to ""
>>   launch document "ScreenShot.png"
>> end mouseUp
>> Is there a way to skip the writing to disk part and just open it  
>> directly?
>
> If it is another stack, then Rev can open it from memory. Otherwise,  
> no. The usual solution is to write to the temp directory, with an  
> obscure name if you want, and then delete the file later when you're  
> done with it.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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