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

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

Cyberdog Services

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.