Ok. So the next logical question is: why are resource file(s) so darn
complicated ( on Win2k the Resource.frk directory was hidden )? Why can't
all of the information be kept in a single file?
john
>From: "Richard Burmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Form is shiften to the right
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:57:13 -0500
>
> > From: John Crouch
> >
> > I had something
> > last week where for the life of me I could not figure out and luckily I
> > found a single message on the ng where someone else had the same
> > problem and
> > they said it was a corrupted resource file. They said they moved their
> > project from Windows to Mac and the Mac CW version told them the
>resource
> > file was bad. Otherwise they would have never known.
> >
>
>One possibility to consider: a lot of people do not appear to understand
>how
>many files and folders they have to transfer from Windows to the Mac when
>transferring a resource "file". So, maybe the resource file was only
>corrupt on the Mac.
>
>For a single "resource file", there is an .rsrc file, a (possibly hidden)
>folder, Resource.frk, and that folder contains another .rsrc file with the
>same name (the resource fork). Few Windows users are aware of this because
>under the Windows OS, a file is a file, not a file plus a folder plus
>another file. Few Mac users are aware of this for the same reason that
>they
>don't appear to understand what file extensions are -- they are hidden from
>them by the OS.
>
>
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