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From: smelser@wang.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Creating Resources: ResEdit or RMaker?
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 08:09:59 EST
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> I haven't checked the paperback edition on this, but what I'd like to know is:
> 
> 	Should resources be created with ResEdit or RMaker?
> 
> The advantage of ResEdit is its interactive, visual editing capability.
> The advantages of RMaker are that .r files can be mailed and printed easily,
> and that it works better with compilers (especially with batch or shell 
> scripts) in combining resources with (freshly-compiled) code.
> 
> Obviously, both methods will "work".  I want to know which is preferable for
> serious software engineering.

I've found it substantially easier to whip up dialogs and alerts (and make
them look right) with ResEdit than with RMaker.  But then I go and turn the
results back into a .r file.  Why?  Because ResEdit doesn't provide any
*direct* method of ordering the items in a DITL.  The order of items is
critical in using a dialog which has many (>1) controls in it.  Using RMaker
lets me be sure of that order.