Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!uwvax!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: ResEdit and GetInfo Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 89 22:03:04 GMT References: Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Distribution: comp Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 22 In-reply-to: gary@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu's message of 10 Oct 89 20:42:04 GMT In article gary@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu (Gary Levin) writes: >Is there any way to put the text block for Info into a resource? No, there isn't. That information is maintained by the Finder in the Desktop file. >Interestingly, the example (p 389) in ``Macintosh programming >primer''' by Reed and Mark (offered with the TC 4.0 upgrade) claims >that the text goes in the Text box of Info, but the figure shows the >text in the Version field, as experience has confirmed. Some versions of the Finder which do not have the Version field in their Get Info box look at the application's signature to bring up a default in the text box. Some may look at the version field for this instead? Anton +----------------------------------+------------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | | University of Wisconsin--Madison | | +----------------------------------+------------------+