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From: jcl@hpausla.HP.COM (Jeff Laing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Open Resource File List
Message-ID: <2580007@hpausla.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 89 22:06:45 GMT
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Organization: HP Australian Software Operation
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Fred Hollander (holland@mips.csc.ti.com) writes in comp.sys.mac.programmer:
> I would like to access all opened resource files. I know they are in a linked
> list, but I can't find any documentation on how to access it.  I've looked
> in IM, Tech Notes and MacTutor.

I have a related question.  I want to be able to do the 'reverse' of 
Get1Resource();  that is, I want to be able to access a particular resource,
which is NOT in the current resource file.  Does anyone know how I can take
the current application (and all resource files after it in the list) out of
the resource search?

I figure that the solution will be in the constructive use of the form

oldfile = CurResFile();
UseResFile( ... some tricky expression ... );
... my code to use the resource ...
UseResFile(oldfile);

but I don't know what the tricky expression will look like to identify the
resource file BEFORE the current one.

Any clues, pointers, sample code, free lunches, etc would be appreciated