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Re: Want to know about resources of Resource fork



On Jun 29, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Eric Schlegel wrote:
// Added resources are automatically committed on close.

Presuming that some data was to be stored in my application's writable resource file, I could omit the FSRef and fork parameters.
Frankly, this is not a sensible use of Carbon events. Events are meant to communicate that something has happened. They're not a long-term data storage mechanism.

If we wanted to do something like this, the right API would be one that let you attach your dictionary directly to the window: SetWindowPersistentInfo( window, dictionary ), or something like that. A Carbon event is not an appropriate solution.

Not only that, but why are we talking about 32-bit OSTypes? Why limit ourselves to the namespace of OSTypes when we have the infinite reverse-DNS namespace of UTIs to work with? :) One of the limitations of the resource manager is unless you already knew every type of resource, it wasn't always clear at a glance what a ResType identified.


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"This whole world is an asylum for the incurable."

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 >Re: Want to know about resources of Resource fork (From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>)



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