joachim@iravcl.ira.uka.de (06/04/88)
In article <394@draken.nada.kth.se>, freund@nada.kth.se (Peter Freund) writes: >[.. describing how a LAYO will grow from 64 bytes to 80 bytes.. ] This is a general FEATURE of ResEdit, that it will interpret any resource according to the TMPL given, expanding or TRUNCATING the resource as needed (Btw, it will not save this CHANGED resource unless you maid some real change). I don't think this is the reason why the finder reports the problem, because the finder will do a GetResource and ignore the trailing bytes. Of course there will be a problem if bytes present in the old LAYO changed their meaning. > > This (I think!) means that the TMPL for LAYO in the ResEdit 1.1A1 is not > I think that the LAYO is simply in advance to the change in the finder. You'll need the new finder to use the features. - Joachim Lindenberg, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe Sommerstrasse 4, 7500 Karlsruhe 1, Federal Republic of Germany joachim@ira.uka.de, joachim@germany.csnet, ..!mcvax!unido!uka!joachim