Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!ccnysci!alexis
From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Bug in resource handling in LSP 2.0
Message-ID: <1112@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 03:33:14 GMT
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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I got Think Pascal 2.0 over a month ago, and it looked very nice. It is,
overall, a great improvement over LSP 1.11, except- it doesn't work! I
had heard several people complain about bugs, but I was very
disappointed to find one on the very first program I tried.

The problem: When you want to create your own dialog templates for the
SFGetFile and SFPutFile routines, you can't. It always uses the DLOG
-4000 (and the other std. file resources) that it finds in the system
file, regardless of what you put in your resource file. If you call
SFPutFile with a custom DlgHook you will likely get a variety of bus
errors or other strange errors that will leave you scratching you head
for a while. You can even crash your Mac. Of course everything worked
properly in LSP 1.11 and everything works right when I run the compiled
app. So all I lose is my ability to debug the damn thing.

Truth-in-bitching: I'm not being fair. Mostly, LSP 2.0 seems to be a
damn good product. Saying LSP "doesn't work" is a tremendous
overstatement... but I'm tremendously ticked off right now so screw it.

Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.uucp