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From: MAC.ROMOS@applelink.apple.com (Ian Hendry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: ResEdit interfaces (Was ResEdit1.3d...)
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Date: 1 Aug 89 15:45:15 GMT
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> While we're talking about ResEdit, I have a question for everybody.  How
> many think ResEdit should just use SF{PutFile, GetFile} like everybody
> else?

If you want to use standard file for resEdit, I think it should be 
optional (another new preference).  Maybe a pretty good idea.  Of 
course, given resEdit's size and complexity, perhaps nifty new features 
are not tops on the resEdit people's list of things to do.

I found in MPW, if you set up an alias for resEdit in your startup with 
the full pathname:
alias resEdit '"hd:resEdit"'
then from MPW you can type "resEdit file1 file2 file3"
and resEdit will open those files (along with the windows resEdit normally 
opens).  Note that the files must be in your current directory or you must 
specify a pathname.  Together with StdFile interface, this would be very 
nice.  When you launched resEdit from MPW, only those files you wanted 
would open, resEdit would not have to scan the directories and build the 
lists of files.  This would be especially cool if you maintained a shell 
variable or file with every project that was a list of resource files 
associated with that project.  You could then type (or make an alias for) 
"resEdit projectResourceFiles,"  or some such, that would open all the 
resource files for that project.

If you do something like this I've found that my old practice of including
the version number in resEdit's filename (eg. ResEdit 1.2) is a pain
because you have to change you MPW startup every time you get a new
version.  Better to just call resEdit "resEdit".

Ian Hendry
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