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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Gripes about System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.221219.4169@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 26 Jan 91 22:12:19 GMT
References: <11863@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <11863@goofy.Apple.COM>, by lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein):
> Putting these things into resources gives 3rd parties the opportunity to
> fill a need.  It would be nice if Apple could build this stuff in, but 
> there's only so much engineering, documentation, UI, talent available and
> tradeoffs have to be made.

OK, I missed the beginning of this thread, but it looks to me like the 
"magic cookie" mapping orphaned TEXT and PICT to ttxt (TeachText) is
'fmap' 17010 in the 7.0b1 Finder.

Notice that there is, in general, no way to gain write access to that 
resource in a running 7.0 system -- the resource fork is, uh, busy.

The System file would be better, and a small file, or better, an AppleEvent
to "Register" or "unregister" the foster parent would be better still.

Larry, I appreciate that not EVERYTHING can go in.  But I'll suggest that
the "foster application" idea is a nice thing that ought to be done
thoroughly before one of us cooks up some horrendous hack...

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com