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From: beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
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Subject: Re: GetIndString, where is the reverse?
Keywords: GetIndString C ToolBox
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Date: 25 Nov 88 23:10:15 GMT
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In article <1012@ccnysci.UUCP> cpyang@ccnysci.UUCP (Chao Ping Yang) writes:
>
>   I am keeping a lot of strings in resources and I need to update
>them when running my program, but how do I change resource data?
>Or how do I do the reverse of GetIndString?  All I can find from
>the Toolbox routines are handles to the resource and the structures
>of the resource files, but that look like a lot of work.
>
>Can somebody help me on this?  This newsgroup has been very helpful.
>
>==Chaoping

Usually, all I do to change a resource is get the handle to the data,
make the changes, and then call ChangedResource(handle).  This tells
the resource manager that your resource has changed and should be updated. 
Then call UpdateResFile(refNum).

I hope this helps.

Patrick Beard
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory