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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: touching resource attributes w/o modifying file
Keywords: mac resource manager setresattrs getresattrs
Message-ID: <1889@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 89 06:06:31 GMT
References: <517@biar.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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In article <517@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>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. [...]
>
>Therefore, any suggestions on how I can load to the application heap w/o
>causing a modification in the file?

Sure. Easy. Just swap the pointers to the System and Application Heap Zones.


:-) :-) :-)

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Alexis Rosen
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