marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) (11/06/90)
try this on earlier versions like 6.0.4): if my program ran on a regular version, everything was fine. If I ran on a minimally-installed version of the system, then it would crash with a bus error. I traced what the _GetPicture trap did, and found that it did a _GetResource call with 'PICT' as the type (that's news?). By calling _GetResource ('PICT'), in my patch, the bus error went away. This seems really strange. Does anyone have any idea why a call to _GetResource would be needed from a _GetPicture trap ONLY on a minimally-installed system? Mark ps: I didn't want to patch the system, but I couldn't figure out another way. If someone else can, I'd really appreciate it. My world: all of my 'PICT' resources are compressed (they all exist under a different resource name). I have alerts ('ALRT') that reference these pictures, so I somehow must get the system to use the decompressed pictures (which are 'real' PICTs). I know when I'm going to call an alert; at this point I used to decompress the picture, then do an AddResouce(), putting it in the resource map. The alerts happily used them. My problem occured when the user launched from a locked disk (a valid configuration); AddResource() won't work when the resource fork is locked. At the same spot I used to do the AddResource() I now log the picture handle into an array that my _GetPicture trap can use. Everytime _GetPicture is called, my patch searchs for a matching PICT_id from its array; if it finds one, it returns the stored picture handle (otherwise it just calls the next _GetPicture routine in the chain). Do any of you have any suggestions on avoiding a patch? The situation that seems to warrant it is when I'm running off of a locked disk, and I can't figure out how to get an alert to use my decompresed picture. -- --------------------------------- Mark Dawson Service Diagnostic Engineering AppleLink: Dawson.M Apple says what it says; I say what I say. We're different ---------------------------------
peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) (11/07/90)
In article <46338@apple.Apple.COM>, marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes: > > Do any of you have any suggestions on avoiding a patch? The situation > that seems to warrant it is when I'm running off of a locked disk, and > I can't figure out how to get an alert to use my decompresed picture. How about using UserItems? Set a procedure for these UserItems that does what you want (draw the compressed pictures)... -- michael -- Michael Peirce -- {apple,decwrl}!claris!outpost!peirce -- Peirce Software -- Suite 301, 719 Hibiscus Place -- Macintosh Programming -- San Jose, California 95117 -- and Consulting -- (408) 244-6554