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From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GetRsrc strange in LSP
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Date: 21 Jun 89 21:16:27 GMT
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In article <32576@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>
>I don't know why you aren't finding your resource, but the fact that the 
>Resource Manager is returning "noErr" was a deliberate "feature". I honestly 
>don't know why it does this, but the Resource Manager intentionally doesn't 
>set ResError to resNotFound if it can't find the resource on a Get(1)Resource 
>call. To add to the bizarreness of it all, Get(1)NamedResource DOES set 
>ResError.


Do you mean that any time I call GetResource and GetResource fails to find
the resource I want, resErr=0?  Or only inside WDEFs (or anyDEFs for that 
matter)  Wow, this is weird.  

Is this discussed in a tech-note or somewhere?

Thanks,




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Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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