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From: MAYER-A@RICEVM1.BITNET (David Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Resource Fork data storage--related question
Message-ID: <1715MAYER-A@RICEVM1>
Date: 19 Jul 90 18:31:16 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.172044.20361@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1990Jul17.172044.20361@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons) says:
>
>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?
>
>Thanks in advance.


WELL,

I have a related question. It may be more of a Pascal question than a
Macintosh question, though.  I would like to retrieve the contents
of a (rather long) array.  A resource of my own type seems
like a logical structure for this.

I know how to load a resource into memory, but I don't see how then to
store the contents into an array I've declared...

I would appreciate any suggestions or better ideas.  Thanks!

    --David