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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Creating Resources???????
Message-ID: <6569@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 18 Feb 89 16:15:20 GMT
References: <4481@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <4481@hubcap.UUCP> mikeoro@hubcap.UUCP (Michael K O'Rourke) writes:
>I am trying to create and read from a resource to store user preferences.
>I created a data structure with two booleans and two inits.  All the data
>writes out fine, but when I try to read it back in it gets messed up.
>
>Volume 1 talks about header, application and reserved data at the beginning
>of a resource. I'm not expected to write this out as part of my data structure
>am I?  I can't figure out what's going on.

Sounds like you're using File Manager I/O when you should be using
Resource Manager I/O.  Use CreateResFile to make the file to store the
resource, if it doesn't exist already, then use AddResource to add the
resource to the file if it doesn't exist already.  If you do this, you
can ignore the section on the resource file format with the stuff about
headers etc.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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