Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ndsuvax!nopuklic
From: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: RMaker to MPW Rez conversion
Message-ID: <1011@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 15:51:23 GMT
References: <2007@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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In article <2007@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> keith@uhccux.UUCP (Keith Kinoshita)
writes:
>
>        I'm working on a project that requires me to convert RMaker
>syntax source files to a form that Rez will understand.  I want
>to know if anyone out there has written such a beastie?  If so could
>you please e-mail me a response?  Thanks in advance...
>--
>Keith Kinoshita
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     Keith, no need to convert the source files, because there is another
way.  Conversion from one source syntax to another is a very simple
task.  Since you apparently have MPW (you mention Rez), you can
compile the source using the RMaker resource compiler, and then decompile
it using MPW's Derez tool.  RMaker will create a file having suffix .rsrc
as its object file.  Derez can then be used on this file in the
following manner:
	Derez SysTypes.r Types.r {Size.r} {MPWTypes.r} inputFile
		> outputFile
     This will create an output file having Rez syntax, and if you
tell Derez about the "type" declaration files SysTypes.r and Types.r,
you'll get source that is fairly easy to understand (minus comments).
I doubt that you'll need to inform Derez of the declaration in Size.r
(that contains the new MultiFinder SIZE resource type), nor the
MPWTypes.r declarations, which contains the resource type for MPW
DRVW's (DRVR's).  (As a matter of fact, I just looked up what the DRVW
type is used for; it just makes writing a desk accessory easier.)  
     I hope this helps you out.  Make sure to ask if you can't figure
out Derez from what I have sketched out above.
     Oh, one more thing about Derez before I forget.  If you have any
resource types that your application uses that are NOT included in
SysTypes.r or Types.r, Derez won't understand them.  However, Derez
will create a Data statement for that resource, so it still will be
understood by Rez and will be placed in the resource fork as it was read
from the original.  In other words, it doesn't make a difference.

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