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From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,aus.mac
Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson, traps for young player.
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.181707.19112@nada.kth.se>
Date: 21 Aug 90 18:17:07 GMT
References: <11591@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <1990Aug20.143025.2160@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1990Aug20.143025.2160@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>>1) Why the hell is the handle to the resource attached to that resource?

Use DetachResource() !

>>2) What is the best way to extract stuff from 'tempHandle' so that things
>>   like that don't happen?  I presume there is a nice 'safe' way of doing
>>   this.

>strncpy(tempString,((char *)(*tempHandle)) + 1,
>	 (size_t)(*(unsigned char *)(*tempHandle)));
>tempString[*(unsigned char *)(*tempHandle)] = '\0';

WARNING ! Lock the handles first !!!!!! (And unlock them after, or, better
yet, use HGetState() and HSetState())

What I would do is use HandToHand.

							h+

	Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+@nada.kth.se