Writing to the resource fork

[stephen barncard]

How odd. I remember using the Rev resource calls to try and recover and
convert some audio resources in old stack. I think I ended up using
SoundEdit to recover the audio resources, so it must have not been
successful in rev.

I noticed you want to write as well as read resources. May I ask why you
want to even use this unsupported technology today, and why your problem
can't be accomplished with custom properties?

sqb

On 30 May 2010 12:37, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>wrote:

> Stephen,
>
> From my first e-mail on this topic:
>
>
>  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.
>>
>
> Perhaps I should add that Mac OS 9.2.2 wasn't running in Classic or in an
> emulator. I used Mac OS 9.2.2 to boot the machine.
>
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> On 30 mei 2010, at 21:30, stephen barncard wrote:
>
>  Perhaps the problem is Snow Leopard -
>> We should assume the old resource fork is officially unsupported and not
>> working in SN. They've been planning on removing resource forks from files
>> for a decade.
>> Back in the hypercard days, one could use the resource fork like today's
>> custom properties in Rev. I would store text, sounds, binaries, images as
>> resources.
>> I remember the resource system wasn't as robust as Rev as far as file
>> integrity; there would be occasional problems with resources, but it
>> worked
>> pretty well.
>>
>> Have you tried this on another machine, perhaps one running Tiger or
>> below?
>>
>>
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