you could write a str# counting app easily... look into the resources examples.. Alain Pastor wrote: > > Bowerbird@... wrote: > > > > how many items can there be in a str# resource? > > > > Apparently, a difficult question to answer since nobody has come yet > with a reply. > OK, I'll bite. I've spent nearly two days counting all the items of > all the STR# resources of all the apps I have on my HD (989 files). > I used ResEdit and checked the results with Resorcerer afterward. > There is a tiny difference of 2 units, but I guess it's not > significant. So, as far as I can count, the answer is in between > three and fifty seven and a half. I suspect it vastly depends on a > few requirements and the speed of CPU on which the app will run, but > not on the free memory since you can store there only empty strings > that Jay might manage to pack into the four first bits of a byte (in > which case perhaps you could go up to 63 items). Notice that it > would be really convenient and you could dramatically increase the > performance of your apps doing so because you would have no need to > access the possible 63rd item, just getting the 1st one would to the > trick; this is merely due to the fact that an empty string always > equals another empty string even though it is uppercased. > Of course, an insane answer would be to say that as the first two > bytes of a STR# resource hold the string count, it should be > _maxInt, but I leave that to the gurus. > I did my homework as you can see, but actually I would like to know > the correct answer as well. > -- > > Cheers > > Alain > > ----------------------------------------------------- > FB^3 in Europe: http://euro.futurebasic.com/ > FB II Pouch: http://www.pixmix.com/FB/outils.html > ----------------------------------------------------- > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <futurebasic-unsubscribe@...> -- Best, /* Matthew D. Beedle ^.,.^ "Yo' Fox!" ^ Foxchange Software mailto:matt@... http://www.foxchange.com/~matt/ */