Re: [MacPerl] Using the Resource Mangler from MacPerl

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

"David C. Schooley" <schooley@ee.gatech.edu> writes:

>You should also explicitly close any opened resource files, since they will
>otherwise remain open after your script has quit.

Another important point.

>$RF = OpenResFile($target);
[...]
>$aeteHandle = GetResource("aete", 0);
>if (!defined($aeteHandle) || $aeteHandle == 0 || HomeResFile($aeteHandle)
>!= $RF) {
>	die ("Application is not scriptable");
>}

This, however, is needlessly complicated. Get1Resource instead of GetResource
will be sufficient.

Matthias

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