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
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