>I sometimes create views that are more complex than the view designer can handle ( via code or 'eview'). I would like to have some method by which I could stop the view designer from opening such views. I want to ensure that I don't open them by accident and clobber my changes.
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>Does anybody know of a way to make a view inaccessible to the view designer?

I don't know of a way to do this, but in my experience, when the view designer can't work with something, it allows you to cancel any changes- I have never had a view permanently damaged by it unless I was careless. Is this what you're trying to prevent?

Just curious- what sort of view is so complicated that EView can't open it?