Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!sunic!kth!draken!d88-jwa
From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Reply via mail or intl. +46 8 258 268...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Altering the Resouce fork
Keywords: resource,fork,C
Message-ID: <1452@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 22 Aug 89 15:15:34 GMT
References: <1492@unocss.UUCP>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Lines: 33

In article <1492@unocss.UUCP> payne@unocss.UUCP (Matt Payne) writes:
>Can a program be made to alter its own resource fork?  Toward the 
>purpose of chaning where windows come up on the screen when they 
>are first brought up, etc.

It is a good idea to save away data for your windows location etc.
This is actually endorsed by Apple Computer (TM, Inc) and described
in a TechNote. This TechNote tells you to save away such data
("Preferences") in a file, preferrably in the startup system folder.
The VRefNum of this folder is available from the SysEnvirons call.

You should NOT change the resource frok of the program, since it will
then not be sharable over networks. Apple has carefully instructed us
in treating the resource fork as "read only" (Which means that it
may eventually actually be that way .-|)

So get on with designing a "stationery ICN#" and saving your prefs in
the system folder. The resource fork of THIS file you can modify as
much as you like, since (hopefully) you'll only run one app of the
same type using any one startup system. If you want to be * REALLY *
paranoid, you could name the prefs file after the Applications name
(not har-code it) thus making it possible to use more than one copies
of the same app at the same time on the same machine.

(Ungh. Is there a -v option (non-verbose) on me ?? ,-)

Happy hacking!

h+@nada.kth.se

-- 
This is your fortune from h+@nada.kth.se:
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.