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From: pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Interesting problem with GetResource('dctb', id)
Message-ID: <338@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 89 15:54:33 GMT
References: <232@fwi.uva.nl> <5058@internal.Apple.COM>
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In article <5058@internal.Apple.COM> han@apple.COM (Byron Han, Project Scapegoat) writes:
>
>Well, this is kind of a strange quirk in the operating system.
>
>Do this instead:
>SetResLoad(FALSE);
>hDCTB := GetResource('dctb', foobar);
>SetResLoad(TRUE);
>LoadResource(hDCTB);

Please give a complete definition of the quirk, including what types of 
resources it affects under what conditions.  I trust that I will not have
to change all my code that gets all kinds of resources to do this charade;
however, nor do I want to have timebombs ticking in my code.

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