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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: File and Folder Comments?
Message-ID: <1355@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 14:00:07 GMT
References: <1263@husc6.harvard.edu> <1333@ccnysci.UUCP> <922@lts.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <922@lts.UUCP> amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker) writes:
>You should never need to parse the DTM files, since any time you would
>have to, you can use the new Desktop Manager calls; this is how the
>Finder does it.  The calls are mentioned in IM V, although I don't remember
>if they are documented there.

My first reaction to this was "What calls???" Since Amanda is not error-
prone, I looked in IM-V, and sure enough, there is a somewhat obscure
reference to such calls on page 393. (I wonder what other good things I've
missed since "leviticus" or whatever it was called...)

Nowhere, however, could I find any information about actually using these
calls. Does anybody know how to use them? My guess is that they're not
documented because they are liable to change. (An optimist might read this
as an indication that the Res Manager is indeed going to be changed soon,
as I suggested in a previous note. A pessimist would say that Apple was
lazy again. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle.)

A truly enterprising individual might want to run his/her favorite debugger
on the Finder to see what the Finder does. I'm not enterprising...

Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.uucp