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From: swanson@CS.Cornell.EDU (Randall A. Swanson)
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Subject: ResEdit & System 7.0
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Date: 26 Apr 91 01:45:40 GMT
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Does anyone know if there is a newer version of ResEdit out, or about to come
out than 2.1.

2.1 has many shortcommings when editing system 7.0 resources.

	1> It will not re-compress compressed resources after they have
		been edited.

	2> It does not have templates for all of the system 7.0 rescources.
		In particular fmnu, where the finder menus are stored.  I
		really like to add key-equivalents to my finder.

	3> The disassembling version of ResEdit 2.1 will sometimes crash, and
		will let you edit the disassembled code except in hex.

Don't get me wrong, 2.1 is a big improvement over 1.2, or even 2.0bx, but
when using it with system 7.0 it has some definite shortcommings that I would
like to see addressed in the next version.

Randall Swanson
121 Baker Tower
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-5102