Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!shodha.enet.dec.com!elvira!ridder From: ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: ResEdit for the Amiga? Message-ID: <3341@shodha.enet.dec.com> Date: 10 Jun 91 17:50:57 GMT References: <2971@public.BTR.COM> <30939@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@shodha.enet.dec.com Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Customer Support Center Lines: 34 In article <30939@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (James is just this guy, you know...) writes: > [is it a good idea to have ResEdit on the Amiga?] >The question is, would it be worth it? After all it could make things >as difficult as on the Mac or even worse. What's difficult? You can change the layout of windows and requesters, you can internationalize without recompiling the code (or without access to the code even.) You can change menus around, etc. Currently none of this can be done in a consistent manner from one application to another on the Amiga. This would make both the developer's and the users' lifes alot nicer, in my book. >And, if folks get carried away with it, there will be all sorts of >extraneous data filling up these files and taking up space on my >harddisk (as is sometimes the case in a Mac...). I don't see where the "extraneous" data comes from. All of these data are currently constants in the executable anyway, we're just talking about moving them into an external file, and adding a bit of housekeeping information. It would be plenty fast and small to make an IFF RSRC form, and define a few new chunks to hold the things we currently "hardcode" into the program (eg. NWIN, NSCR, and MENU chunks for NewWindow, NewScreen, and Menu structures.) >- James McIninch -hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hans-Gabriel Ridder Digital Equipment Corporation ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com Customer Support Center ...decwrl!elvira.enet!ridder Colorado Springs, CO