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From: sharyn@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Sharyn Elis Horowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Help with Mac II wierdness
Message-ID: <7332@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 14 Jan 91 17:33:03 GMT
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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If someone could respond VERY soon, I'd be eternally greatful...

Here's the situation:  I ported a PC program to the Mac, adding dialog
boxes, menus, windows, the whole nine yards.  Since the program uses the
extended PC character set (characters>127) which is different from the
Mac fonts, I added a couple of extra definitions to the font I use
(Monaco 9), and stored the modified font in the application's resource
fork.  Then, when initializing the application, I loaded the modified
font with the following code:

     Handle handle;
       ...
     handle=GetResource('FONT',521);

This worked fine on all the Macs I tried it on, except Mac IIcx's with
System 6.0.3, Finder 6.1.5.  So I tried

     Handle handle;
     int current;
     current=CurResFile();
       ...
     handle=GetResource('FONT',521);
     ReleaseResource(handle);
     UseResFile(current);
     handle=GetResource('FONT',521);

Still no dice.  Wherever I checked, ResError == noErr.

HELP!!! Why can't I get these !@#$% Mac II's to display the modified
font?  The darned thing even worked on an Atari ST, (6.0.3/6.1).

Responding to this group is OK, but if you could also (or instead)
send a message to my computer account (sharyn@jhunix, on bitnet)
I would be appreciative.

Thanks,
Eric Ruck