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From: jtsweet@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan Thoma Sweet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: WDEF editor ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.232759.13768@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 91 23:27:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.060530.22536@newshost.anu.edu.au> <RANG.91Apr28165150@nexus.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
 
>In article <1991Apr28.060530.22536@newshost.anu.edu.au> jww502@anu.oz.au ("John
 W White") writes:
 
>>      Since there are so many (well OK, a few) alternative WDEF
>>inits around, I was wondering if there was an editor or something so
>>that I (and possibly others :-)) can create my own.  If there isn't
>>then how do you work out the resource ?  Hmmmmmmmmm ? :-)
 
>  A WDEF resource is just a chunk of 68000 code.  See Inside Mac for
>details.  There are probably disassemblers around for it; the source
>for the standard WDEF is available on apple.com.  To create one, you
>can just use your favorite compiler--MPW, THINK Pascal, and THINK C
>all make this easy.  (OK, "easy" is relative.  Fairly easy?)
 
Yes but there must be some sort of a program that would be able to
generate the code.  I've looked in the Res. of a QuickChange document
(a cdev that changes your cursors, windows, buttons, and sounds) and
the only thing that defines the windows is the WDEF resource.  It's
not a huge resource and I'm sure there could be some kind of utility
to create a new recourse.
 
>>      Also what about the same sort of thing for buttons (a la
>>Olivers Buttons) and which resource is used for that ?
 
Maybe the editor could do both.
 
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