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snb90@uk.ac.soton.ecs (Stewart Brodie) writes:

>However, what I want to know is, is it safe to call res_init TWICE in
>the same program, ie. after doing template_init() and resspr_init() with
>the first variable, can I switch it?  It seems to work but is it safe,
>or might some of the RISC OS library modules start to call the res
>functions again during execution?

I think that all res_init() does is to set the pathname of the resource
directory that RISC OS Lib stores and uses internally,though as Acorn
haven't supplied
  a) a decent manual, or
  b) any source code,
I can't be 100% certain...

In this case, it should be safe to call res_init() twice, but the first
directory will then be 'lost' (i.e it should be OK to load read-only
resources, then swap directories for subsequent use of r/w resources)

However, you can't really rely on this, as Acorn probably reserve the right
to completely bugger up any programs that make this assumption by changing
res_init() to crash or something if it's called twice... Not that they'd
do this to spite us, but just that in future releases of ROLib this assumption
may not hold true...

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