> I'm not opening any database explicitly - 
> this is the DEFAULT behavior - 
> system-provided help text dialogs
> pick up their text from ROM instead of RAM.

The system retrieves resources using one of two algorithms:
- look in the most recently open database only
- look in all open databases, starting with the most recently opened one

The latter is more common. In either case, your database must be open.
Applications don't have to open their own databases; the system takes care
of this for you. But this isn't the case for shared libraries. You have to
open your own database if you want to be able to access your own resources.
Here's my last post on the subject:
http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m52942.html

Is your shared library also an application? That might explain how you could
get away without opening your own database, at least in some situations.
-
Danny

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