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From: smelser@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Craig Smelser)
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Subject: Re: Re: Creating Resources: ResEdit or RMaker?
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 11:13:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 11:13:20 1986
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> > 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.
> 
> I use ResEdit also, and agree with this assessment, except for the
> statement that there's no capability for direct ordering.  What
> do you mean by "direct"? 

What I meant by "direct" is something along the lines of being able to
see (and renumber, or drag the elements of) an ordered list of the dialog
elements.  Having important aspects of the dialog be invisible makes me
nervous.  I took a look at ResEdit's TMPL definition language, but it's
not flexible enough to deal with DITL's because it lacks any conditional
constructs. (The size of DITL elements varies with their type.)

The solution you suggest (using send to back or bring to front) is functional,
but error-prone.  Perhaps you're more systematic than I am...