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From: hammersslammers1@oxy.edu (David J. Harr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: ResEdit TMPLs
Message-ID: <106625@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 90 13:25:10 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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I am trying to create a template for a custom resource in ResEdit. Since I
was too cheap to buy the thing from APDA ("Money? What do you mean spend
money? I pirated this fair ands square...") I find now that I am being bit
 by not understanding the size of the various parameters in the TMPL TMPL.
There are several different sizes, including
HWRD (half word = 1 byte?)
LONG (long = 4 bytes?)
LSTE (not a clue)
DWRD (double word? but that would be the same as a long, right?)
LSTC (again, not a clue)
ZCNT (a zero count, ie you take the number and add one to it)
HLNG (half long = 2 bytes? but that is the same as a word, right?)
LSTB (not a clue)
FWRD (full word = 2 bytes?)
BBIT (I dunno)
DLNG (double long = 8 bytes?)
ESTR (dunno)

Anyone who could explain the arcane terminology here (shades of Un*x!) would
be halping a poor confused programmer to help resist the temptation to throw
himself off the nearest edifice of more than 17 stories so as to put an end
to his misery in this vale of tears. Seriously, if there is a place where I
can get this information from FTP or whatever, point me tooit, and I will
shut up and cease pestering my betters. Does the ResEdit tutorial 3.0 that
someone posted a while back have information about creating custom templates
for custom resources? Thanks mucho.

David