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Mimic MS Word open document status "~foo.doc".

Hi,
I've made a program where I serialize data to a file. Conceptually these
data are handled by the user just as you would a document in MS Word. Load,
Save etc.

I would like my program to prevent loading these data if the file is already
loaded in another instance of the program. Just like MS Word prevents you
from opening the same document twice (at the same time).

I was thinking about setting (and testing for) a file attribute when loading
my data and then remove the file attribute when saving. Is this a good idea
or are there any more clever alternatives that I should know of?

I see in the MS Explorer that word make a ghosted version of the file with a
prepended tilde "~foo.doc" when I open foo.doc. What does this file serve??

Thanks,
Jesper.
Jun 27 '08 #1
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