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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Alerts and Dialog Boxes in Desk Accessories
Message-ID: <6390@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 26 Jan 89 17:43:22 GMT
References: <1086@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <1086@husc6.harvard.edu> maymudes@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (David M.
Maymudes) writes:
>IM gives the conventions for numbering resources that are owned by a desk
>accessory, and warns that your desk accessory may be renumbered.  Resource 
>ID's have to be recalculated from your DA's ID.  The FONT/DA Mover renumbers   
>your DA's resources, but it doesn't change, for instance, the DITL ID stored in
>a DLOG or ALRT resource.

Yes it does.  See Tech Note #23.  It changes DITL id's in DLOGs and
ALRTs, ICON, PICT, and CNTL IDs in DITLs, and MDEF ids in MENUs.
Remember, you can't program the Mac without familiarity with *both* IM
and the Tech Notes.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Gangsters would kidnap my math teacher, Miss Albertine, and I'd track them
 down and kill them one by one until she was free, and then she'd break off
 her engagement with my sarcastic English teacher, Mr. Richardson, because
 she'd fallen hopelessly in love with her grim-faced and silent
 fourteen-year-old savior." -- Nite Owl, in WATCHMEN by Alan Moore