Quote:Originally posted by WFleming


thanks,

In addition I found some code (Technical Q&A FL14) at developer.apple.com that shows how to use the Process Manager to get the vRefNum and dirID of the application. I assume it would be better to plug these into FSpOpenResFile than using 0 for them?

What app are you getting the vRefNum and dirID of? To get the current resource file (by default, the app) I believe that you can just say:

Quote:Originally posted by jabber
What app are you getting the vRefNum and dirID of? To get the current resource file (by default, the app) I believe that you can just say:

Code:

short oldRes;

oldRes = CurResFile();

true, but CurResFile() doesn't return a FSSpec (or at least i'm unaware how to get one from CurResFile()), which seems to be needed in this case