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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: New convention for owned resources--addendum
Message-ID: <2005.271d7a03@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 17 Oct 90 20:46:43 GMT
References: <2001.271ca261@waikato.ac.nz>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Something else occurred to me after I got home last night (funny, isn't it...)

You could have two code resources with the same name, but of different types,
in the same resource file. You'd need some way of distinguishing the
resources owned by one from those owned by the other. In other words,
you'd need to incorporate the type of the owning resource into the
names of the owned resources.

You could do this simply by prepending the four-character resource
type onto the names of the owned resources. Thus, the resources
owned by XCMD "Fred" would be called "XCMDFred:Properties" and
"XCMDFred:Dialog".

Further complication: the Resource Manager ignores case in resource
names, but it does apparently distinguish diacritical marks (Inside Mac
page I-110). This case-insensitivity may be a problem, since resource
types are case-sensitive. If it is likely to be a problem, you'd need
to add another byte to the name to get around this.

By the way, those who think that the existing resource ID convention
is all you need can ignore this discussion...

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