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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: amateur programming questions
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.185229.183@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 18:52:29 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.165107.7828@umiami.ir.miami.edu>, dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man) writes:
|> As you've mentioned, you create the 'ICON' resources with ResEdit and 
|> remember (write down) the ID's of them. Then just load it (them), make
|> a rect to put it in a window, and plot it (them). Don't forget to set the
|> port of the window to draw in, though.

Why is it that people tend to use ID numbers instead of using names
to identify resources?

In working on a TCL application, I noticed that there were no builtin
ways to, for example, tell CWindow to use a named resource.  Instead,
I had to convert the name to the resource ID myself, and hand that
to the creation routine.

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