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From: carlton@ji.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Trouble with OpenResFile("\pDeskTop");
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Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 17:38:10 EDT
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Summary: Unexpected feature in _OpenResFile

I was bitten once by a bug that may be causing your problem.  It seems
that OpenResFile does a _RecoverHandle on the string you pass it.  Of
course, if you pass an explicit string like "\pDesktop" there is no
handle!  My solution was to create a handle, copy the string to it
and pass the dereferenced handle.  Pretty ugly, but it worked.

However, the code always crashed on me and did not return an error so
it may not be your problem.

Good luck,
mike (carlton@ji.berkeley.edu or ...!ucbvax!ji!carlton)