Re: even better coerce to record with usrf
Re: even better coerce to record with usrf
- Subject: Re: even better coerce to record with usrf
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 12:46:41 -0800
nigh on 2001-12-15 3:42 AM, email@hidden at email@hidden wrote:
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The four-byte type identifier, which the programmers call a type code
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or resource type is a basic component of Mac programming. You have
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-- Four-letter creator codes...
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-- Four-letter file types...
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-- Four-letter resource types...
It's important to stress that these are not "four letter" values. They are
32-bit, four-byte sequences. They are typically given values that serve as
mnemonics by using MacRoman characters, but they can also be arbitrary
integer values that contain, for example, non-printable ASCII control
characters.
--
Chris Page
Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop
Palm, Inc.
Software development is the art of cajoling megabytes of random noise into
doing something reasonably useful, or at least not life-threatening.