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Re: add resource


  • Subject: Re: add resource
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:47:40 +0100

At 3:07 pm -0700 19/8/02, Matthew Galaher wrote:
It is not uncommon in my work flow to come across files that have no
resource fork or have had it killed by a non mac process (ftp'd by someone
out of my control for example). I'm interested in an OS 9 Apple Script
droplet that would let me drop multiple files and have the resource fork
added to the files. I don't know much about this area, and although I came
across the 'add resource' scripting addition I have not been able to get it
working. Would anyone be kind enough to outline an example?

There are a number of osa extensions that will do this, but the only one currently available for both OS X and earlier OS is the Satimage osax

<http://www.satimage-software.com/>

Here is an example:

set f to "" & (path to +constant afdrdocs;) & "junk.txt"
open for access file f
close access file f
put resource "hello" to file f type "TEXT" index 128
tell app "ResEdit" to open file f -- just to see

I'm hoping that I can find some example that I can edit so that I can add the ability to choose creater and file type in a dialog. But currently I'm stumped on how to get the resource fork added to a file.

I don't quite follow this. A file needs no resource fork in order to have a file type and creator type...

set f to "" & (path to +constant afdrdocs;) & "junk.owt"
open for access file f
close access file f
tell application "Finder"
tell file f to set {file type, creator type} to {"????", "owt_"}
end tell

[ ... but junk.owt still has no resource fork. ]

JD
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