Thanks to the extensive range of xtras available, a Director projector can
create any type of document and write it to the user's hard disk. In Windows
Explorer and the Macintosh Finder, users expect that a double-click on a
document icon will launch the program that created it. This article shows you
how to associate files with the Director projector that created them. By the
end of this article, you will have created a simple word processor
application that creates its own document files; double-clicking on the icon
of one of these files will open your Director application so that you can
edit the document.
There are many situations in which this technique will prove useful. For
example, you may want to save the state of a game in progress, a customized
slide show presentation, or mark up data for a video sequence.
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