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From: tooly@berlin.snafu.de (Theo Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject: Re: Using Resources from an Extra
Date: 1 Dec 1996 12:42:30 GMT
Organization: Unlimited Surprise Systems, Berlin
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hochstrasse@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Urs Hochstrasser) writes:

>In article <57c6t3$dc0@merki0.connect.com.au>, Andrew Roughan
><posty@iggy.triode.net.au> wrote:

>> So obviously I need to open the resource fork manually (and login
>> to the resource manager). Following this thought then, how do I
>> open my own resource fork? Given that I think that I can't really
>> know the location I was loaded from (two choices for Finder Extras),
>> or the name of the file?
>> 
>> I would have thought this would be a highly desirable activity for
>> all programs. Am I missing something basic here?
>This sounds very familar to me. StartupTools only opens the resource fork
>with S16 files. NDAs, EXEs (ORCA shell applications) and Symbolix Plugins
>don't. There is a tech note about this: #83 Resource Manager Stuff:
>CALLING STARTUPTOOLS FROM A SHELL APPLICATION (FILE TYPE $B5, EXE).
>Basically you call ResourceStartUp, get the pathname of your Extra by
>calling LGetPathname2 with your user ID and pass the pathname to
>OpenResourceFile.

>Hope it helps

 
Hi there,
 
if you want to use the ResourceFork in your FinderExtra, than you can
do this :
 
---START---
 
Word    myMemID, myRezID, curApp;
 
myMemID = MMStartUp ();
curApp = OpenResourceFileByID (1, myMemID);
myRezID = GetCurResourceFile ();
 
   -- do anything with the Resourcefork what you want --
 
SetCurResourceApp (curApp);
CloseResourceFile (myRezID);
 
---END---
 
I hope this help.
Best regards from Germany
 
   Theo
 
 

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