Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?
Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?
- From: Pierre-Olivier Latour <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:13:05 +0200
>
> There is (presumed some, I guess, 10% of code would be Carbon, which
>
> is no problem for Cocoa links agains Carbon anyway), but what on
>
> earth for?!? Those OS9 resources are OBSOLETE!!! Any new application
>
> should use resource data stored in separate files inside a bundle
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> instead.
FYI: resource fork is the best way to add "special data" to files like
preview pictures (very useful, unless you're a real UNIX terminal only geek
;) ), print settings, custom icons, and lot of other stuff. Furthermore, all
this non-essential information is added _without_ touching the original data
which remains usable on other file systems.
For example, I don't see, since other OS cannot have previews and custom
icons for graphic files, why I should not use them on my Mac which is able
to do this...
These are among all the little stuff that make Macs more user friendly than
PCs in my point of view. If you want the MacOS to be 99% identical to the
other OS, then what's the point of getting a mac? Just buy a PC and get the
real standard.
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Pierre-Olivier Latour email@hidden
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French Touch software
http://www.french-touch.net
Cool source code:
http://www.french-touch.net/CodeWareHouse
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