On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:08:04 +0200, Jean-Daniel Dupas said:

>No, you don't need the Carbon rsrc manager, you need the CoreServices
>File Manager, which is available to 64 bits app and AFAIK, the only
>supported way to save resource forks.
>Apple even recommends against using ..namedfork. If you want to access
>it at BSD level, that last recommendation i saw was to use xattr (http://
>lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2007/Oct/msg00018.html)
>
>Use FSOpenFork passing the name obtained with FSGetResourceForkName as
>argument to open the rsrc stream of the file, and then, use FSWriteFork
>() to write your data.

And in a Cocoa context, I recommend Nathan Day's Obj-C wrapper NDResourceFork:

<http://github.com/nathanday/ndalias/blob/master/Classes/NDResourceFork.h>

--
____________________________________________________________
Sean McBride, B. Eng                 s...@rogue-research.com
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


_______________________________________________

Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)

Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com

Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com

Reply via email to