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B5017 - How do I manipulate external files so that they're not easily seen by users?

by - Joseph Ganci

I'd like to use external .gif files but I don't want to make it easy for users to double-click the .gif files and open them up. I wonder if there is any way to have Authorware change the extension of all .gif files in the current folder to have an extension of .ugl and vice-versa?

Here's a script to do convert .gif files to .ugl files:

files := Catalog(FileLocation, "f")
repeat with i := 1 to LineCount(files)
   file := GetLine(files, i)
   extension := SubStr(file, RFind(".", file), CharCount(file))
   if extension = ".gif" then RenameFile(FileLocation^file, ¬
      Replace(extension, ".ugl", file))
end repeat

To change the .ugl files back to .gif:

files := Catalog(FileLocation, "f")
repeat with i := 1 to LineCount(files)
   file := GetLine(files, i)
   extension := SubStr(file, RFind(".", file), CharCount(file))
   if extension = ".ugl" then RenameFile(FileLocation^file,¬
       Replace(extension, ".gif", file))
end repeat

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