I see, said the blind man... Your "(data fork)" helped clarify things for
me. Correct me if this explanation is incorrect (my words):
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The Macintosh has a concept of a "data fork" and a "resource fork". For
those from the Microsoft Visual Basic world, this would be somewhat
analogous to the way a form in VB is saved into two files; a .frm file that
contains a part of the form definition, and a .frx file that contains
another part. Both have to be kept together. Since Code Warrior came from a
Macintosh world originally, it carries along this way of handling files.
In Code Warrior's case, the foo.rsrc file that is in the RSC folder is the
"data fork" part of the matched pair of files, and the file that is in the
RSC/RESOURCE.FRK folder is the "resource fork" part of the pair of files.
Since a resource file (pair) is mostly about containing resource
information, the one in the RSC level is 0 length, and the one below in the
RSC/RESOURCE.FRK folder is NOT zero length, since that is where the resource
data actually resides
If you need to copy a resource file from one project to another, you must
copy BOTH parts; the 0 length part and the non-zero length part.
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To anyone reading this from the archives... the above may not be correct.
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than I will either bless these
statements or correct me, so make sure you look for such
blessings/corrections/rejections...
BWW
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott
> Johnson (Bellevue)
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:19 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: RESOURCE.FRK
>
>
> > From: Bradley Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Which ones do I copy to my new project?
>
> Both. The zero-length one (data fork) does need to be present in
> order for
>
> Constructor to see the whole thing, and the resource fork needs to be in a
> subdirectory named exactly Resource.frk (case insensitive).
>
> -slj-
>
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