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In article <10930@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu>, das11@starling.cs.uofs.edu
(David Sobeski) wrote:
> 
> 
> 	once again, i am going to post this question to anyone with
> 	some insight...
> 
> 	problem : i want to allow a user to change the position of
> 		  controls on the screen.  in fact, i want to create
> 		  a dialog box editor-like application that will allow
> 		  a user to customize the interface.  instead of saving
> 		  the changes to a .RES file, i want to make the changes
> 		  directly to the .EXE.  under the macintosh environment,
> 		  api's are provided for this type of functionality.
> 		  are there equivalents in os/2?  if these functions do
> 		  not exist, is the format of the .EXE defined well
> 		  enough that i can make the changes by writing directly
> 		  to the .EXE?
> 
> 	any insight is appreciated.
> 

While the Macintosh allows you to make changes to the Resource fork of the
application, this is not the recommended approach.  On the Mac, User
preferences (i.e. positions of controls on the screen) are stored in a
Preferences file.  This convention was something that the Mac programmer's
community evolved and to accomodate this, Apple actually created a special
"Preferences" folder inside the main System so apps have a standard place
to store user preferences.

Reasons for not user the Resource fork:
1) if the application is locked, the save fails.
2) if the application is on a locked floppy, the save fails.
3) if the application is on a server, the save is a bad thing to do
  - if the server allows only read access to the app, the save fails.
  - if the server allows  read/write access, you may have wiped out someone
else preference.


In other word, you are much better off creating a file and storing it
somewhere.

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