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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Chooser name
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Date: 11 May 91 16:36:55 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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In article <1991May10.215035.28352@informatics.wustl.edu>, kahn@informatics.wustl.edu (Michael Kahn) writes:
> How do I get the current Chooser name in MPW Pascal and ThinkC 4.0?  I
> can't find i Toolbox call for it documented  anywhere in Inside
> Macintosh or in any of the Tech Notes.  Have I missed it?

The Chooser name is stored in the system file as STR ID = -16096.
You can fetch it using the GetString(-16413) trap which returns a
handle to the string.

Note that in System 7, they've modified this scheme somewhat.  Rather
than a "Chooser Name", there are now two names: a "Owner Name" stored
in STR ID = -16096 and a "Macintosh Name" stored in STR ID = -16413.

-- michael

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