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From: warwick@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: DESKTOP ACC.
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Date: 30 Jan 91 23:27:32 GMT
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In <1991Jan30.144626.16658@newcastle.ac.uk> D.M.Johnson@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Johnson) writes:


> I want to include resource files in the program, but as the prgoram is a D.A.
>it should be in the code. How do I find the objects in the resource file
>if I have just forced it to be included with the compiled code.

Why put them in the DA? I think this is being a bit presumptuous of you...
How do you like it when you get software with a German RSC?  At least with
a resource file you can change it.  And on this point, I wish people would
stop using form_alert(2,"[Are you sure?][Yes|No]"), rather than a free
string, or Resource Alert from a .RSC file.  Human-Language dependent
programs are a bit rude, especially on a system that has heaps of
European support... ANYWAY...

>	Any tips on writing D.A.s is very useful as I have seen no documention
>on how to write them.

Have you written a GEM program?  DA's are similar...


Do you initialisation:
(if "initialisation" was in a .RSC, you could change it to initialization)

	1. Get your appl id (using appl_init, as for a GEM program)
	2. Register the name of your application (use menu_register)
	3. Load your RSC (use rsrc_load)
	4. Whatever else you want (create buffers, etc.)

Then:

	while (1)
	{
		get an event (using event_multi, or event_msg)

		if the event is an AC_OPEN, do whatever you want to do.
	}

Basically, it is a GEM program + menu_register + AC_OPEN handling,
so you should be able to convert a GEM program pretty well. One note
though, I don't think DA's are given access to keyboard events, so
you may have to circumvent this somehow. (Any clues?)

WARNING:
	I am a Modula-2 programmer, and my FTL M2 compiler, or my memory
may cause slight differences from the normal identifiers.

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