exner@c20.trl.oz (Rolf Exner) (12/12/90)
A posting a couple of days back mentioned a function HOpenResFile that allows one to specify the vRefNum and dirID of the resource file to be opened. It was just what I was needed, but I couldn't find it documented anywhere. I ended up writing my own, only to get a Think C linker error telling me HOpenResFile is defined twice - once in my code and once in MacTraps!! So, if this is a standard toolbox function, where is it documented, and in what version of the System did it become available?
han@Apple.COM (Byron Han) (12/13/90)
In article <2539@trlluna.trl.oz> exner@c20.trl.oz writes: >A posting a couple of days back mentioned a function HOpenResFile that >allows one to specify the vRefNum and dirID of the resource file to be >opened. It was just what I was needed, but I couldn't find it documented >anywhere. > Try Macintosh Technical Note #214. hope this helps. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Byron Han, Software Artist "1984 wasn't like 1984..." Apple Computer, Inc. ----------------------------------------- 20525 Mariani Ave, MS: 35CP Internet: han@apple.COM Cupertino, CA 95014 UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!han ATTnet: 408-974-6450 Applelink:HAN1 HAN1@applelink.apple.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
daven@svc.portal.com (12/13/90)
In article <2539@trlluna.trl.oz> exner@c20.trl.oz writes: >A posting a couple of days back mentioned a function HOpenResFile that >allows one to specify the vRefNum and dirID of the resource file to be >opened. It was just what I was needed, but I couldn't find it documented >anywhere. > >I ended up writing my own, only to get a Think C linker error telling me >HOpenResFile is defined twice - once in my code and once in MacTraps!! > >So, if this is a standard toolbox function, where is it documented, and in >what version of the System did it become available? I don't know of any HOpenResFile, but there is a HFS call named HOpenRF which takes the parameters you mention. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Newman | daven@svc.portal.com | AppleLink: D0025 Sofware Ventures Corp. | AOL: MicroPhone | CIS: 76004,2161 Berkeley, CA 94705 | WELL: tinman@well.sf.ca.us | (415) 644-3232
Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) (12/16/90)
Rolf Exner writes in a message to All
RE> So, if this [HOpenResFile] is a standard toolbox function, where is
RE> it documented,
RE> and in what version of the System did it become available?
PBHOpenRF(...):OSErr;
is documented in IM vol 4, page 137: "PBHOpenRF is identical to PB OepnRF
except
that it accepts a directory ID in ioDirID."
I don't know where the "ResFile" part comes from...
Lawson
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Internet: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org6500rgls@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Randall S Geels) (12/17/90)
See Apple Tech. Note #214 dated Oct. 1, 1988. Here it explains that HOpenResFile is actually just some glue code which makes opening a resource file easier. (PS. Tech. Notes are available from apple.com via anonymous ftp) --Randy