Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rs4u+ From: rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: ResEdit Gripes Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 88 13:29:42 GMT References: <177@wayne.analog.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: <177@wayne.analog.UUCP > 1. A decent font editor which doesn't crash or scramble fonts. Get FONTastic or Fontographer from Altsys; they're both fantastic dedicated font editors. > 2. A graphic menu editor which is faster than the current slooooow one. I have recently posted on to sumex.stanford.edu, and I'll post it to comp.binaries.mac, too.> > 3. Graphic interfaces wherever possible and appropriate (ie, ability to draw > PICT resources directly in the editor, rather than the current roundabout > method of generatine PICT's.) Why? It's so simple to draw the picture you want in the illustration program of your choice, and paste it in to your resource file, using the wonderful Macintosh standard copy/paste mechanism. > 4. A reasonable text editor method for generating text resources. (See above, substitute "type the text" for "draw the picture" and "text editor" for "illustration program".) > 5. A simple well documented way of including custom editors in the main > shell (Apple promised years ago to tell how to do this with ResEdit, but as > far as I know, has never done so) Indeed they have; in a recent software supplement, and in the MPW C and Pascal documents, the methods are documented. I see no reason to reinvent the wheel by throwing in trash like drawing facilities and text editors, when those tools already exist; the dedicated drawing program will always give better results than something that's added into a resource editor. Jazz is a good example of such failure. -Rich