Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!claris!apple!darin From: darin@Apple.COM (Darin Adler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Accessing the user's name from the Chooser Keywords: chooser, driver Message-ID: <13519@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 8 Jul 88 02:40:52 GMT References: <250@wjh12.harvard.edu> <3619@claris.UUCP> Reply-To: darin@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Darin Adler) Organization: Apple Lines: 16 In article <3619@claris.UUCP> peirce@claris.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes: > You'll find this in the System file as STR number -16096. The following code > is all you need since the system's resource fork is already open for you... > Of course, you shouldn't use STR -16096 in your application's resource > fork for something else :-) Of course, no application would use a resource ID of -16096, since it is in the *owned* range (owned by one of the AppleTalk drivers). The following are the ranges defined by Inside Mac: -32768 - -16385 reserved for future use -16384 - -1 owned by DRVR, WDEF, MDEF, CDEF, PDEF, PACK, etc. 0 - 127 for System use 128 - 32767 for application use Darin Adler AppleLink: Adler4 UUCP: {sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual}!apple!darin CSNET: darin@Apple.com