A number of people have noted that Resource IDs above 10000 are reserved
for the system and below are not. But just a reminder of an exchange that
happened several months ago:
Steve Patt:
> at one point on the screen of the handheld
> (I believe it was while the Macintosh Backup conduit
> was running) I saw an error message which is found in one
> of the tSTR resources of this application! (ID=1006). Is this
> some kind of conflict with a system resource?
Scott Johnson:
>Hey Steve, it looks like you found a bug in the system! I can duplicate the
>problem on OS 3.5 here. The HotSync_enUS resource overlay does contain a
>tSTR 1006 which is the "Synchronizing" prefix that HotSync prints on the
>screen in front of each app name. If I add a tSTR 1006 to my own app and
>install it via HotSync, then my copy of the string gets printed on the
>screen briefly when synching instead of HotSync's copy of the string.
>Weird!
So there is always a possibility of other potential problems.
Steve Patt
President, Stevens Creek Software
http://www.stevenscreek.com/palm
Best PQA ("ePQA"), PalmSource 99
Best Application ("PizzaScan"), Palm Developer's Conference 1998
First printing software for the Palm - September, 1997
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