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From: han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, fire fighter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: documenting resources
Message-ID: <7852@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 6 Apr 88 20:17:27 GMT
References: <534@wuphys.UUCP>
Reply-To: han@apple.UUCP (Byron Han, fire fighter)
Organization: Communication Tools Group - Apple Computer, Inc.
Lines: 43
Keywords: how?

In article <534@wuphys.UUCP> mrk@wuphys.UUCP (Mark R. Kaufmann) writes:
>
>
>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.)
>
Try using DeRez from the Macintosh Programmers Workshop.  You can dump
resource files into formatted text files which can be edited and processed
by Rez into a resource file again.  You can create you own templates for
the DeRez'ing so you can get something more intelligable than a straight
hex dump.

Example of formatted DeRez output:
resource 'STR#' (-4001) {
	{
	"1.0D1",
	"Written by Byron Han.\0x0DCopyright  1988 - Apple Computer, Inc."
	}
};

Example of unformatted Rez output:
data 'STR#' (-4001) {
	$"0002 0531 2E30 4431 2543 6F70 7972 6967"        /* ...1.0D1%Copyrig */
	$"6874 20A9 2031 3938 3820 2D20 4279 726F"        /* ht  1988 - Byro */
	$"6E20 422E 2048 616E 2C20 6573 712E"             /* n B. Han, esq. */
};

Both are accepted by Rez to create a resource file.  The formatted version
requires the templates which are included with MPW.  The templates include
most all resources (DITL, DLOG, STR , WIND, vers, SIZE, et cetera ad nauseum
et rigor mortis...)

MPW is available from APDA - 290 SW 43rd Street;  Renton, WA 98055

This does not represent an official Apple statement of position.

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