Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wucs1!wuphys!mrk
From: mrk@wuphys.UUCP (Mark R. Kaufmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: documenting resources
Message-ID: <534@wuphys.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 04:44:00 GMT
Reply-To: mrk@wuphys.UUCP (Mark R. Kaufmann)
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Washington Univ., St. Louis
Lines: 29
Keywords: how?



I am new to Macintosh programming and have recently discovered the
usefulness of ResEdit.

However, I have one concern:
how does one document the "code" that is "written" using ResEdit?
(I don't think I like the idea of writing code without being able to obtain
a useful hard copy of it.)

So far, the only ideas we have come up with are:

(1) creating a hex dump of the .rsrc file (not very useful except to
    reproduce the .rsrc file if it is lost)

(2) starting ResEdit and opening every resource, displaying it on the
    screen, creating a screen dump to a file, and later printing all of
    the screen dumps from within MacPaint.

What do all of the expert Mac programmers out there do?

Please e-mail responses; I will summarize.

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