| Technote TB 18 | July 1987 |
There is a limit to the number of the resources in a single resource file. This
limitation is imposed by the resource map. There are two bytes at the end of
the resource map which are the offset from the beginning of the resource map to
the beginning of the resource names list. If there is only one type of
resource, then the overhead, from the beginning of the resource map to the
beginning of the reference list, is 38 bytes. Since the offset is a two byte
value, and is a signed number, its highest possible value is 32767. This
is the limitation. If you subtract 38 bytes for the overhead, and divide the
difference by 12 (the number of bytes for each reference) you get about
2727.4--the limit to the number of resources in a single file is 2727.
The Resource Manager was not intended to manage large numbers of resources, and as a result, its performance is particularly bad with many resources. Because of these restrictions, we recommend that developers avoid using the Resource Manager as a data base tool.
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