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From: phils@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Phil Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Can't seem to get SFGetFile to work....!
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Date: 24 Sep 90 13:56:11 GMT
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In-Reply-To: niko@du248-16.cc.iastate.edu's message of 22 Sep 90 23:28:06 GMT

I may be missing something, but... you can't call SF{Put,Get}File
before you've intialized the ToolBox.  The standard file routines
depend on a initialized QuickDraw world.  If you want to use the
standard file calls with the console library (the part of ANSI that
gives you a menubar, etc.) you can let the console do the inits for
you simply by referencing any of the standard i/o streams, eg:

main()
{
    printf("\n");
    selectfile();
    ...
}

BTW, the 'minimal' SFGetFile call would probably be:

    SFGetFile(0x00500045, "", 0L, -1, 0L, 0L, &reply);
or
    SFGetFile(0x00500045, "", 0L, 1, "TEXT", 0L, &reply);

	-phil shapiro, symantec tech support
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Phil Shapiro
phils@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu