Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: ResEdit for the Amiga? Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 00:56:50 GMT Article-I.D.: amiga0.mykes.3174 References: Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 31 In article stevek@amiglynx.UUCP (Steve K) writes: >Would it be possible to construct a ResEdit (MAC) type program for the Amiga? >If your not familiar with ResEdit (which I doubt) it is a program that lets >you edit the aspects of other programs such as colors, icons, window types, >window positions, menus, fonts, buttons & fields, etc. in a nice icon driven >enviroment. Can this be done on the Amiga, or are Amiga executables not >standardized enough to tell one thing from another? > >-=*> Steve Krulewitz -------------------- UUNET!tronsbox!amiglynx!stevek <*=- Actually, I've been discussing somethine like this with a friend of mine who programs X-Windows. There is a program called PowerWindows which does some of what ResEdit does, except it generates source code. The Amiga doesn't provide both CODE and RESOURCE forks, so a ResEdit program would have to work with external/separate resource files. The Amiga does support a Debug HUNK in the middle of your executable, which is normally used by debuggers. So what I have been thinking is that you sould make a ResEdit type program that works with an external file. The application program would use the resources from the external file during development, and the debug hunk in the application is used for debuggers. When you want to ship the product, the resource file could easily be stored in the Debug HUNK so when you drag the icon for the program, its resources go with it. The "ResEdit" program could then be used to alter the data in the Debug HUNK at a later time... -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************