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From: keith@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Keith Kinoshita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: RMaker to MPW Rez conversion
Message-ID: <2013@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 1 Jul 88 11:49:38 GMT
References: <2007@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <13094@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: keith@uhccux.UUCP (Keith Kinoshita)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <13094@apple.Apple.COM> tomas@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Tom Taylor) writes:
[my posting deleted with some initial comments]
>but I do know of a way to accomplish the task:
>
>  Simply run RMaker on your RMaker source files to create the resource
>  files.  Then use the MPW tool DeRez to "decompile" the resource file(s)
>  into Rez source files.  It's simple.

	Thanks for the replies everyone, but perhaps I should have been
more specific.  I've been using the method mentioned above up to now, 
but I wanted to:
1) include the original comments from the RMaker source files 
2) keep the resource files into a structured layout.
	DeRez is fine for small resource files, and generating resources
for similar applications.  In one instance, I've got a resource file 
that's over a 100K (FONDs inclusive) when I've DeRezed it.  I've been 
able to work with the hex data declarations up to now, but I forsee 
problems in the future.  If major revisions are necessary,
a lot of time will be wasted either rewriting the code for Rez or
making the changes to the RMaker sources and going through the whole
compile->DeRez->Rez cycle.  It would be so much more simpler if someone
had a program that converted RMaker source files into Rez source files
that preserved comments and generated a structured format.
-- 
Keith Kinoshita
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