Service Resource(Cyberdog)

Inside Macintosh: Cyberdog Programmer's Kit / Part 3 - Cyberdog Reference

Chapter 6 - Types, Constants, and Global Functions / Types and Constants

Service Resource
Figure 6-1 shows the format of the service resource, 'srvc'. You use this resource to specify characteristics of a Cyberdog service. When a Cyberdog session is initialized, it creates a Cyberdog service for each 'srvc' resource in your shared library.
Figure 6-1 'srvc' resource

This resource contains the following elements:

Service ID. The service ID specifies the resource ID of a 'STR#' resource that contains strings describing the service. The strings in the 'STR#' resource are specified in the following order:

SOM class ID of the CyberService subclass. This is required for CyberService subclasses.
User-readable name of the service. This is required for CyberService subclasses.
URL Scheme supported by the service. This is required for SimpleCyberService objects.
Part kind of the service's Connect To panel. This is required for SimpleCyberService objects. This is an empty string if the service does not have a Connect To panel.
Part kind of the service's Preferences panel. This is required for SimpleCyberService objects. This is an empty string if the service does not have a Preferences panel.
SOM class ID of the CyberItem subclass for which this service will manufacture Cyberdog items. This is required for SimpleCyberService objects.

Icon suite ID. The icon suite ID specifies the resource ID of the icon suite for the service. This is required for SimpleCyberService objects.
Service menus ID. The service menus ID specifies the resource ID of a 'STR#' resource that contains the menu item names for this service. This is required for SimpleCyberService objects. This field is set to 0 if the service does not have any menu items.