Question regarding third party applications

[softwareguy]

Will this product work for this situation?

I'm using a third party application that needs to work with a particular file such as "c:\somefile.tst"

I want to create a hidden folder that can only bee seen by my application that contains many files, including the one above. Somehow I would like the third party app to be able to access that specific file from this "hidden" location.

I'm not quite sure if this is possible with this product, but it seems like it might be.

Any feedback on this would be appreciated.

[Artem A. Razin]

Thank you for your question.

Yes, it's possible. With BoxedAppSDK_CreateVirtualFile, you create a virtual file "c:\somefile.tst".

Then set:

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BoxedAppSDK_EnableOption(DEF_BOXEDAPPSDK_OPTION__EMBED_BOXEDAPP_IN_CHILD_PROCESSES, TRUE);


to enable embedding boxedapp into child processes.

Now you can launch 3rd party application and it will view "c:\somefile.tst".

Thank you.

[softwareguy]

Then what about the "actual" file representing the virtual file?

Also, can I create virtual folders the same as virtual file? In other words, can I create a virtual folder called "c:\virtualfolder\" which can't be really seen by any application, but I can TELL the third party application to use this virtual folder to store it's files?

[method]

yes, it's possible. You can use BoxedAppSDK_AttachToProcess to share files between processes
http://www.boxedapp.com/boxedappsdk/hel ... ocess.html

Then what about the "actual" file representing the virtual file?

Also, can I create virtual folders the same as virtual file? In other words, can I create a virtual folder called "c:\virtualfolder\" which can't be really seen by any application, but I can TELL the third party application to use this virtual folder to store it's files?

[Artem A. Razin]

Then what about the "actual" file representing the virtual file?

BoxedApp hooks all low level functions, so an application can use virtual files as real ones.

Also, can I create virtual folders the same as virtual file? In other words, can I create a virtual folder called "c:\virtualfolder\" which can't be really seen by any application, but I can TELL the third party application to use this virtual folder to store it's files?

To create a virtual folder use function BoxedAppSDK_CreateVirtualDirectory, the arguments are the same as CreateDirectory has.

Thank you.