Writing to the resource fork

[stephen barncard]

Found it, Mark...
It does work.

One must CREATE a resource fork FIRST.

I was working with Sarah's *Resource Copier* stack, but it had no facility
to create a new fork in a virgin file, and in fact could not put resources
into a blank text file..

(many) years ago I remember running into difficulty with HC on this matter
at first. So I decided to create a single 'dummy' resource to get things
going. Here's the code that brought the text file to life as a resource
holder (run in the extended msg box) and using other parts set up in Sarah's
stack:

-- 
setResource(destinationFile,resourceType,[resID],[resName],flagsList,data)


put fld "Dest" of card id 1002 of stack "ResourceCopier" into tDest

put "This is a test text resource." into pData

get setResource(tDest,"TEXT",128,"ResourceCreator",RL,pData)


put it && the result  (to see errs)



I'm going add "CREATE RSRC FORK" button to my copy of Sarah's stack.


THis test was run on a Mac G5 with Leopard 10.5.8 and Rev 4.5.2


On 27 May 2010 15:25, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>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.
>
>