Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: LSC multiple resources to one file Message-ID: <226000034@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 19 Dec 88 21:35:00 GMT Lines: 36 Nf-ID: #R:In article wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes: >>I have several different projects that compile several different, but >>related standalone code resources (XFCN's). It would simplify my >>life greatly I could have all of the code resources in one resource file. > >This sounds like the kind of problem I'm having too. I'm developing an >application with some custom CDEF's. The work on the application is fine - >I'm in LSC, so I can alter things, hit %R, try it out, and so on. It's >a real shame that life isn't this easy when I'm developing the CDEF. I have >to make an alteration, do a "Build Code Resource", wait for the linker, >MultiFind across to ResEdit, open the application's resource file, delete >the old CDEF, open the CDEF file, copy and paste the new CDEF across, >MultiFind to LSC, close the CDEF project, open the Appl one. > I may end up writing an application (sort-of like a ResEdit script) to >automate the ResEdit stage - or am I making life difficult for myself somehow? > I too had the same problem recently and what I ended up doing was using Hypercard (yes, Hypercard) and Steve Maller's ResCopy XCMD which allows you not only to bring up the dialog, but also (what I do) specify the source and destination files and the resource you want copied. I just put some quick scripts on top to allows me to secify which files and resources to copy and everything works great! (on my 5meg MacII) +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + MacNET: MACgician + + Delphi: MACgician + AppleLink: D0025 + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+