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: Sam Griffith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 16:58:28 -0500
From what I remember, resource forks are going away. I seem to remember
Apple saying that at one of the developers conferences.
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On 7/3/02 4:13 PM, "Pierre-Olivier Latour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> There is (presumed some, I guess, 10% of code would be Carbon, which
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>> is no problem for Cocoa links agains Carbon anyway), but what on
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>> earth for?!? Those OS9 resources are OBSOLETE!!! Any new application
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>> should use resource data stored in separate files inside a bundle
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>> instead.
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FYI: resource fork is the best way to add "special data" to files like
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preview pictures (very useful, unless you're a real UNIX terminal only geek
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;) ), print settings, custom icons, and lot of other stuff. Furthermore, all
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this non-essential information is added _without_ touching the original data
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which remains usable on other file systems.
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For example, I don't see, since other OS cannot have previews and custom
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icons for graphic files, why I should not use them on my Mac which is able
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to do this...
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These are among all the little stuff that make Macs more user friendly than
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PCs in my point of view. If you want the MacOS to be 99% identical to the
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other OS, then what's the point of getting a mac? Just buy a PC and get the
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real standard.
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