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From: mnkonar@smallberries.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
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Subject: Re: GetResource in a WDEF - does it work?
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Date: 1 Nov 89 17:33:23 GMT
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In article <2793@taux01.UUCP> cyosta@taux01.nsc.com ( Yossie Silverman ) writes:
>I am writing a WDEF which needs to do some GetResource calles.  It seems
>that these are all returning NIL but not setting ResError to anything
>usefull.  I was doing a GetMenu in the WDEF and it wouldn't, so I moved	

GetResource will not set ResError if it can't find the resource you want.  It
returns nil.  I beleive this is documented in IM V1.  

Another thing to look out for is that your resource file may not be in the 
resource search path when your WDEF is called (i.e. under Multifinder).  The
solution here is to get handles to all the resources you want to access during
the WDEF's initialization routine and store them for later use.

I would think hard about trying to pop up a menu inside a WDEF (It seems
like this is what you want to do).  I tried this and while it worked, it
was kind of a kludge.  There are probably better ways to do what you want.


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