Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!biar!trebor
From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: touching resource attributes w/o modifying file
Keywords: mac resource manager setresattrs getresattrs
Message-ID: <517@biar.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 02:45:42 GMT
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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I have a couple of sections of code that occasionally need to temporarily
change resource attributes; in particular, resSysHeap.  Basically, I want
to load a resource so I can look at it, but don't want it to go into the
system heap as that is 1) impolite and 2) can fail.

getresattrs / setresattrs / my code / setresattrs(original) works fine,
but it has the side effect that it changes the file's modification date
which I don't really want to do; I want to be as non-invasive as possible.

Therefore, any suggestions on how I can load to the application heap w/o
causing a modification in the file?

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