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From: tlm@byucsb.UUCP (Myers Tim )
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Help with DA's requested
Message-ID: <154@byucsb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 12:50:39 EST
Article-I.D.: byucsb.154
Posted: Tue Feb 26 12:50:39 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:25:50 EST
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Reply-To: tlm@byucsb.UUCP (Myers Tim (MacHack))
Organization: BYU Computer and Statistical Science -- Provo UT
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Summary:
In article <> ihw@hou5a.UUCP (I Walkenfeld) writes:
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>I'm having some trouble with a few of the desk accessories that I've
>downloaded from the net recently and would like some help.
>
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>2. I've been using the Desk Accessory Mover (1.4) to extract desk accessories
> that were originally resources, not DAM documents. Most DA's come out
> OK. Calendar, insect, and journal cannot be extracted from System
> successfully using the DAM - when extracting them, they get
> initiated as though I had selected them from the apple menu,
> and DAM reports an error.
> Is there something about these DA's that makes them unsuitable
> to be made into DAM documents? Is there a way around it? I really
> would like to keep them as DAM doc's; it's so much more
> convenient.
I can't remember exactly where I read this, but I think it was in the Desk
Manager part of Inside Macintosh where it states that Desk Accessory names
*should* begin with a null then be followed by the accessory name.
I have a gut feeling that many of these wonderful accessories that get passed
around do not comply with this suggestion in IM. The result is that DAM goes
crazy when it gets a filename that exactly matches the accessory name. This
is not the case with accessories that were properly created like the stock
Calculator. Calculator is really "Calculator" in the System resource.
My only fix so far is to name the DAM save file something different than the
accessory name. Anybody know how to insert a null in accessory names?
Some other problems happen with DAM when DRVR numbers collide, but that is
another story...
Tim Myers