[Pythonmac-SIG] Abnormal program termination

[Just van Rossum]

At 11:44 AM -0700 15-08-2000, Jared Updike wrote:
>So when I debug into PythonCore when my code calls PyMac_Initialize(); and
>step through,
>
>static int
>getpreffilefss(FSSpec *fssp)
>{
>	static int diditbefore=0;
>	static int rv = 1;
>	static FSSpec fss;
>	short prefdirRefNum;
>	long prefdirDirID;
>	long pyprefdirDirID;
>	Handle namehandle;
>	OSErr err;
>
>	if ( !diditbefore ) {
>		if ( (namehandle=GetNamedResource('STR ',
>PREFFILENAME_NAME)) == NULL ) {
>			(void)StopAlert(NOPREFNAME_ID, NULL);
>-->>			exit(1);
>		}
>
>it dies here __^ Is there an easy way to fix this (it looks trivial but I
>don't know that much Mac stuff) What is the issue here?

It means it cand find a 'STR ' resource with a name of whatever
PREFFILENAME_NAME says.. You might need to include some of the MacPython
resource files in your project.

Just