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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PACK rsrc & Chooser
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Date: 7 Nov 90 02:03:57 GMT
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In article <4610@husc6.harvard.edu>, kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
> 
> I'm writing an non-serial printer driver and wish to check the SysEnvirons
> when it's selected in the chooser so that I can disallow the selection if
> the environment isn't right.  So, I've included the PACK -4096 resource
> with the appropriate header.  The problem is, no matter which flags I set,
> whether it be the initMsg or the selectMsg, it never seems to call the code
> at offset $10 pointed to by the first branch in the resource (IM IV-217).

Have you been trying different flag setting in your RDEV?  The chooser
caches these the first time it sees you RDEV and late changes can
go unnoticed.  Try removing the RDEV and putting it back with a new
name to get the Chooser to reread the flags.

-- michael


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