Trouble with OpenResFile("\pDeskTop");

Article View: comp.sys.mac

Article #19872

#19872

From: David Phillip Oster
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1987 07:16

11 lines
1082 bytes

I've been reading the source for Andy Hertzfeld's program "Icon Bounce"
(published in _Programmers At Work_) and in it, he opens the desktop
file where the Finder caches all the icons, by doing the equivalent of
the LightSpeed C:
OpenResFile("\pDeskTop");
When I try this, I always get "File Not Found" error.  What is the secret
to make this work?
Did old versions of Icon Bounce stop working when HFS came out?
-- David Oster:  Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu
UUCP: {ihnp4,decvax}!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster

Technical Details

Message-ID: <4150@well.UUCP>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-lcc!ptsfa!well!oster

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-lcc!ptsfa!well!oster
From: oster@well.UUCP (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Trouble with OpenResFile("\pDeskTop");
Message-ID: <4150@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 03:16:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.4150
Posted: Tue Oct  6 03:16:29 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 05:34:02 EDT
Reply-To: oster@well.UUCP (David Phillip Oster)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Lines: 11