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From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Using Resource Fork to store data
Message-ID: <9214@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 90 00:04:51 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.172044.20361@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1990Jul17.172044.20361@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Peter Commons writes:
>I'm currently working on a new multi-user game for the Mac. In thinking about
>how I would like my save file to look, it would be very convenient to have
>one resource with the main data and one resource with the data for each player
>(rather than have all the data sequentially laid out in the data fork) because
>the game will only need to look at one player's info at a time. 
>
>Can I do this? If so, should I use my own (non-reserved) resource name? And if
>I define my own resource type, how do I specify it's length (or does it 
>automatically make it as long as the handle I pass it when I call AddResource?

Yes, you can do that.  And, yes, you should use a non-reserved resource name.
AddResource will make a resource that's as big as the handle you pass to it.
Typically your program would have a record that defines the player data and
you'd pass the sizeof() that data to NewHandle to create the handle...

steve
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