Re: Write a prefs file
Re: Write a prefs file
- Subject: Re: Write a prefs file
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 06:44:04 -0500
On 5/31/2002 12:26 AM, "Matthew Stuckwisch" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> No resources are not typically stored in the data fork - they are still
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> stored in the resource fork in most of the apps I have seen in Mac OS X.
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> Definitely not in the apps I will be writing / maintaining for Mac OS X in
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> the near future. All of the resource files I have mentioned are real
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> resource files with resource forks containing actual resources (lots of them,
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> in fact).
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>
I think here you have forgotten that applications in OSX are no longer a
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single data file. They are actually folders that Finder interprets as a
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file.
I've known about bundles/packages for some time. I've built a few of them
myself.
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What it seems you are trying to say is that since you can find the
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resource files inside an application package they are instantly in a
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resource fork.
You nailed it. I opened them in Resorcerer, and because Resorcerer did not
complain that there was no resource fork, I assumed it indicated that the
resources Resorcerer displayed were in the resource fork, not the data fork.
My assumption was incorrect.
JR
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