gjditchfield@violet.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield) (07/07/88)
In article <434@dogie.edu> terranova@vms.macc.wisc.edu writes: >... Rather than putting windows, menus, icons, >def procs, strings, controls, etc. in resources he would prefer to >hard code everything into the program and make heavy use of #define >statements. Then lsr@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) explained: >The main motivation for using resources was to allow programs to be >customized for international markets without recompiling them. All that you >need to localize a progam for France, for example, is the original English >version and a resource manipulation tool (ResEdit, etc.). We could have it both ways, if compilers could be told to put certain data items in resources instead of the global data area. I imagine a compiler for a C superset with ResTools declaration syntax and a "resource" storage class specifier stirred in, or a Pascal compiler that accepts programs with RESOURCE declaration sections. Heck, I bet it's no more than four times as hard as writing a normal compiler. Glen Ditchfield gjditchfield@violet.uwaterloo.ca Office: DC 2517 Dept. of Computer Science, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 Each age thinks itself in possession of the true and only view possible for sensible man -- W. M. Dixon
dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist) (05/02/91)
I am trying to copy a file from within a program. It contains resources only. If I use Resource manager and call CountTypes, I will get all the types of *all* open resource files, I just want those in that specific file. UseResFile will let me skip some of the files, beginning with the one I wanted to examine, so it won't work either. Inside Machintosh told me that i should use OpenRF in File Manager for "block level operations" I used it and tried to read data with FSRead ===> boooom. How should it be done? /$DR.HEX$
marshall@sdd.hp.com (Marshall Clow) (05/03/91)
In article <1991May2.161706.12121@cs.umu.se> dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist) writes: >I am trying to copy a file from within a program. It contains resources only. >If I use Resource manager and call CountTypes, I will get all the types >of *all* open resource files, I just want those in that specific file. >UseResFile will let me skip some of the files, beginning with the one I >wanted to examine, so it won't work either. >Inside Machintosh told me that i should use OpenRF in File Manager for >"block level operations" >I used it and tried to read data with FSRead ===> boooom. >How should it be done? > IM-IV page 15 documents Count1Types and Count1Resource, which do what you seem to want. My question is, what do you really want? Do you wish a new file that contains the same resources as the old file? Do you want a file that is byte for byte identical to the old file? How about the creator and file type? Finder Info? Creation and modification date? If you copy a locked file, should the copy be locked? I have a routine I wrote a few years ago that handles all of these (I think) If there is an interest, I can post it. Marshall Clow marshall@sdd.hp.com