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Re: app resourcefork

To: REALbasic Betas <realbasic-betas at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: app resourcefork
From: Seth Willits <seth at freaksw dot com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:53:05 -0700
On 7/30/02 3:23 AM, the NSA intercepted the following message from "Nathan
Fisher" <virtual1 at pitnet dot net>:

> I was just trying to have an app modify its resource fork (using
> app.resourcefork.addresource) but it seems to be silently failing. (yes,
> it's compiled)  Didn't this used to work?

You cannot modify the application's resource fork from within your
application. I don't think this ever worked. It's considered dangerous to do
it in any language (REALbasic/C++/Objective C) you name it.


Seth Willits
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