Re: Write a prefs file
Re: Write a prefs file
- Subject: Re: Write a prefs file
- From: Ric Phillips <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:07:04 +1000
Mmmm, the source?
....and I quote:
"Before Mac OS X and Carbon, application resources were put in the resource
fork of the application executable. That policy has now changed. In Mac OS X
and for Carbon applications generally, resources should be put in the data
fork of a separate resource file, not the resource fork of the executable."
Page 170, "Inside Mac OS X - System Overview",
) 2000-2001 Apple Computer, Inc. (All rights reserved)
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> Although resource forks are a part of the HFS+ architecture, I thought the
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> recommendation was that resource forks are out, and should not be used any
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> more.
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Consider the source.
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HFS+ supports data forks just fine, even on Mac OS X. The only valid reason
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for not using resource forks is if you plan on placing the file on a
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non-HFS+ volume, such a UFS or NTFS...... Apple itself continues to use
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resource forks in LOTS of Mac OS X software. What's good enough for
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Apple
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JR
Ric Phillips
Faculty Web Coordinator
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Latrobe University
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Phone: 9479 2792
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