Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster
From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Scrap Management, User Preferences
Message-ID: <28956@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 28 Apr 89 11:49:00 GMT
References: <1833@etive.ed.ac.uk> <28905@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1867@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster)
Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley
Lines: 25

In article <1867@etive.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>I also got this suggestion from Dave Platt. I love it! So, I can
>invent a small PICT or something which essentially "iconises" the
>scrap. Nice. Do other applications do things this way? (I'll have to
>give it a try with Performer...)

Deluxe Music Construction Set, among other does this: you can paste music
into the scrapbook, what you see is the sheet music, but if you paste it
back into DMCS, you can hear it too.
>
>>A file, either data or resoruce, that you find using poor-man's-search-path,
>I presume you mean a hard-wired path like "::System Folder:Config" or
>something...

No, don't do anything that perverse.
Just FSOpen(), OpenResFile(), or OpenRFPerm() the file normally. If the
system can't find it in the current folder, it will look in the System
Folder. Incidently, Stuffit 1.5.1 has a bug with this: if you try to
extract a file that happens to have the same name as a file in your system
folder, StuffIt asks you if you want to replace the old one, even though
the old one is never touched.

--- David Phillip Oster            --"When we replace the mouse with a pen,
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --3 button mouse fans will need saxophone
Uucp: {uwvax,decvax}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --lessons." - Gasee