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From: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Purge or Revert Resource?
Message-ID: <12440@well.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 23:12:42 GMT
References: <82203@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>
Reply-To: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Organization: Software Supply, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <82203@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>, holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
writes:

> I want to revert a resource that is already loaded into memory by reading the
> resource from the resource file and discarding any changes.  I also want to
> keep the same handle to the resource.  Can this be done?  LoadResource won't
> do anything if it's already loaded. I can't find a PurgeResource procedure.
> Is there any way to force a resource to be purged or to force a resource to
> be reloaded?

        HUnlock(RsrcHandle);     {if it might have been locked}
        EmptyHandle(RsrcHandle); {this is the "PurgeResource" you sought}
        LoadResource(RsrcHandle);
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brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)