[futurebasic] Re: [FB] STR# resource problem

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From: Hans van Maanen <hvmaanen@...>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:48:13 +0100
>>I periodically have to change the 25 or 30 entries which exist in the STR#
>>resource fork of a program.  I am trying to devise a method which would be
>>a bit easier then typing the new strings into ResEdit each time. I would
>>like to purge the old STR# resource first; then create new strings as
>>individual lines in a text file. The final step would be to use a routine
>>to read the string values from the text file to a new STR# resource.
>>
>>Does anyone have a routine I can use to accomplish that final step?
>

There used to have a little utility  called Text to STR#. I fink I faw it
in Pascal Central or something like that. It converts a TEXT file to a STR#
resource. Is that what you want, or do you want to do it from inside your
program?

Hans van Maanen
Amstedam - NL