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From: olson@bootsie.UUCP (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Where is documentation on TMPLs?
Keywords: TMPL ResEdit
Message-ID: <20@bootsie.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 90 22:48:31 GMT
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Reply-To: olson@bootsie.UUCP (Eric Olson)
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In article <5507@hub.ucsb.edu> stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu () writes:
(list of TMPL codes deleted)

I've a bit more info on some of these types.  It is from playing
with TMPLs and some old, old documentation.

(the documentation I have is from the 12/85 Software Supplement!):

FBYT,FWRD
 	Filler byte or word, not settable or viewable when editing the
	resource (see the example in TMPL "MENU").  FLNG apparently
	doesn't exist in ResEdit.

AWRD	I have no idea what this does.  It's in the TMPL "CTY#", the
	map cdev's format for a list of city data.  Anybody know
	what an AWRD is supposed to be?  And if there's an ABYT or ALNG?

OSTR, ESTR
	These types are Pascal Strings, padded to odd or even length
	(including the length byte), not C strings as previously
	described in this group and in the documentation.  The padding
	(a zero) appears at the end of the string if needed, and the
	length byte is not updated to include the padding.

LSTB/LSTE
	An example of this kind of list is the TMPL for TMPL's.  These
	list's lengths are inferred from the length of the resource.

BOOL
	This is a two-byte value, with the lowest bit in the high
	byte set if TRUE (like a Pascal BOOLEAN pushed on the stack).

LSTC, LSTZ
	These are two-byte values.

Hope this helps someone!

-Eric

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