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From: rad@genco.uucp (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New convention for owned resources--addendum
Message-ID: <89@genco.uucp>
Date: 19 Oct 90 17:33:31 GMT
References: <2001.271ca261@waikato.ac.nz> <2005.271d7a03@waikato.ac.nz>
Reply-To: rad@genco. (Bob Daniel)
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, MO
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In article <2005.271d7a03@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>
>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".

I've attempted to implement something similar to this.  The problem is that
you can't (or I couldn't figure out how to) load a resource by name using,
ie, a wildcard.

I'm writing a DA that allows externals to be written by other developers.
I would like more than just resource type to determine the type of resource they
have written (code resource, that is).  If using the above example;
"XCMDFred:Properties", I need the ability to test to see if the resource
exists containing 'Fred'.. thus, Get1NamedResource("*Fred*",type).  If
null is returned, no resources exist with 'Fred' in it.  Of course for 
multiple resources with 'Fred' in it, you need CountNamedResources and
Get indexed resources with the ability to use wildcards.  Is there another
approach to this?  Is there an alternative in Sys7?


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