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From: moyman@ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Shutdown Manager...(somebody!!)
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.162542.29247@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 16:25:42 GMT
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Organization: Engineering Computer Network
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Someone out there must have done this before! I have an INIT that installs code
to be run at shutdown. The question is how do I get the resources it needs to
hand around until then?? 

Interesting observation: All of the constants (#define's ...their values) from
the INIT remain intact while the globals from the INIT are accessable but their
values are scrod!! This doesn't make sense to my feeble mind.

Lets take the example of an 'STR ' resource named "String #1" (with the "System
Heap" bit set...nothing else).

I could do:

strHdl = GetNamedResource('STR ', "\pString #1");
DetachResource(strHdl);
HLock(strHdl);

Doing a "GetString" at shutdown finds nothing... The value of strHdl is scrod
at shutdown so how can I (or the GetString call) do a "LoadResource" to get it
back in memory?? To tell you the truth I am not real sure what I am trying to
do... Keep the resource in memory till shutdown or just keep the resource in
the system heap till shutdown...or what. Am I the only one who has tried to do
this?? or is it just not posible to do!! (which I can't believe)

Mike Moya
Engineering Computer Network
Purdue University