On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, David Fedor wrote: > > who chose DmGet1Resource and DmGetResource for names? > > The names were surely inspired by Mac OS's names for similar routines. > History. In fact, you already answered your own question. As you said > right above:
:) can we blame Mac OS designers then? > > not all of us agree with the choices our "founders" make - and, > > we have to learn to live with them dont we? :) > > DmGet1Resource theoretically only looks in the most recently opened > database. BUT: overlays are a special case, and if the database in > question has an overlay, then it does get scanned first. If you know about > overlays and don't want that to happen, there are APIs in the overlay > manager to control that. ahh :) maybe it'll be nice to include something like that with the DmGet1Resource() documentation? :) it kinda isn't obvious by looking at the API reference - as it says one thing, and you say another :) hidden messages/meanings are the worst kind of problems to figure out :) not everyone has access to the os source code in order to figure out exactly whats going on *g* // az [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ardiri.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
