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From: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New convention for owned resources--addendum
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Date: 19 Oct 90 19:50:20 GMT
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.mac.programmer: 18-Oct-90 Re: New
> convention for owne.. Matthias Neeracher@iiic. (806)

> In article <1990Oct17.220257.26134@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
> newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) writes:
> >Why not follow the 'BNDL' approach ('bndl' perhaps, which would of
> >course require Apple's blessing)? The 'bndl' resource could simply be a
> >list of associated resources. Much more general and easier to localise.

> This wouldn't work because you need to be able to have such a bundle for
every resource ID of every possible resource type, not just of one type.
>  You can't express that with one 16-bit resource ID, unless you do a lot
> of collision detection and renumbering.


You're right, of course, but the idea that I got was that we were sort
of going to assume that there would be relatively few bndl resources
lying around and number them arbitrarily, either indexing through them
to check, or (I just thought of this) perhaps naming them to check. 
e.g. bndl indicating resources owned by XCMD #1039 might be named
"XCMD1039" or perhaps "XCMD040F".  Apple does, after all, provide
underused facilities for doing resource lookup by name.
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