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Resource Manager Routines / Counting and Listing Resource Types

CountResources

You can use the CountResources function to get the total number of available resources of a given type.

FUNCTION CountResources (theType: ResType): Integer;

theType

A resource type.

DESCRIPTION

Given a resource type, the CountResources function reads the resource maps in memory for all resource forks open to your application. It returns as its function result the total number of resources of the given type in all resource forks open to your application.

RESULT CODE

noErr

0

No error

SEE ALSO

To check for errors, call the ResError function as described on page 1-47.