moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (08/26/87)
In out last episode, you may recall that I was having problems with the
feature of Suitcase where it searches for a "Fonts" and a "DAs" folder
within the System Folder and makes any font or DA files within the
respective folders available to the user at boot-up (as someone mentioned,
they are not loaded into memory; as far as I can figure out, they are opened
for reading, and read from disk when needed, just like the System File). My
problem was that I had about 10 DA files and 20 Font files in the two
folders, and only two or three of the font files were being loaded.
Finally figured it out -- Suitcase, like any other application, has a
maximum number of files it can have opened at any time. I'm not a Mac
programmer, but I suspect it's 16 or 32 or some round number like that.
Anyway, it couldn't open all my files at a time, so I put all the fonts into
one font file, all the DAs into one DA file, and now everything works
splendidly.
After all the problems I had with Double Apple and Other..., I have to say
that Suitcase is incredibly robust. A very impressive application, and
definately worth the bucks.
"I *LIKE* IT!!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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