Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!nerm
From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GetIndString and System 7
Message-ID: <54390@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 91 18:30:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.152232.27719@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Jun26.152232.27719@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick/2113674) writes:
>Now that there is a ReadPartialResource routine in System 7, I was
>wondering if a) it is used for GetIndString and b) whether it is used
>by the Help Manager to read in from STR# resources. I can always split
>up my help and error strings better than I am now, but if this is taken
>care of, I won't sweat it as much.
>

  GetIndString has always been a glue routine that is implemented by whoever
sells compilers, so we couldn't really re-write it using Partial Resource
calls.  At any rate, you can't really use these calls to implement GetIndString
since ReadPartialResource takes a byte offset from the beginning of the
resource, and you can't know where a string starts in a 'STR#'.

  -- Dean Yu
     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, Window Cleaner, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     blah blah blah blah...