Writing to the resource fork

[Joe F.]

Your example worked for me on OS X 10.6.3 when I made these changes.

   put empty into URL "binfile:~/desktop/resource test.dat"
   get setResource("~/desktop/resource test.dat","TEXT",999,"Test","U","Hello World")


On May 27, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For a new project, it is essential that I can read from and write to the resource fork of a file. I am not looking for a way to copy resource forks.
> 
> I am trying to use the setResource function, but it doesn't work. I tried it with Rev 4.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 and Rev 2.6.1 on Mac OS 9.2.2. With both systems, I get the same result: the resource is created (including ID, name and flags, but the data are not written to it.
> 
> On Mac OS X, contrary to what the documentation claims, the file isn't created automatically, if the file doesn't exist yet. Therefore, I create the file before writing the resource fork.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue about what might be wrong with the following two lines?
> 
> put empty into url "binfile:~/desktop/resource test.dat"
> get setresource("/Users/Mark/desktop/resource test.dat","MARK",999,"Test","U","Hello World")
> 
> Althought the serResource function doesn't work correctly for me, the getResource and getResources functions work fine on both systems.
> 
> I tried to find a solution in the archives, but it looks like this function is rarely used. I need it though.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
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