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From: eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Resources, Resource Compilers, and Resource Editors
Message-ID: <328@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 88 18:12:57 GMT
Organization: Ada Joint Program Office
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Keywords: Resources

First, an apology: I know this message more appropriately belongs on
comp.sys.mac.programmers, but my host computer has yet to recognize the
existence of this group. The only way I seem to be able to read
comp.sys.mac.programmers is when it is appended to the end of
comp.sys.mac.

Now, on to the question: My company inherited an old (1984-5) Mac
application. With the source code came old RMaker input files, which
included inputs for icons, windows, menues, etc. (The icons are in the
form of hexadecimal numbers.) After a good deal of work, one of my
fellow employees got the thing up and running under MPW 2.0. However,
he left with out doing anything with the original RMaker input file.

We have begun to work on the Pascal source code, modifying it as
needed, and running the MPW build file (complete with a call to
RMaker) created by the dear departed. We now want to modify the icons
for the application and application documents. Our question is this:
Given an old RMaker (resource compiler) input file, what is the best
way to bring this system up to date? Specifically, we would like to
avoid using RMaker altogether, and place items such as icons in a
resource file which can be both edited and "linked" each time we
re-build the application.

				-- Ed Berard
				   (301) 695-6960