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From: jcl@hpausla.HP.COM (Jeff Laing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Where oh where has my interface gone?
Message-ID: <2580006@hpausla.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 89 04:00:40 GMT
Organization: HP Australian Software Operation
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I have been chasing the documentation on how to write your own editors
and pickers for ResEdit.  I got reasonably close when I found a file
on a P.D. disk that contained the headers, but the corresponding object
library was not present.

Someone then told me that MPW contained all the necessary stuff, so I asked
everyone I knew who had MPW -- no, it wasn't present on their version 1 MPW
disks, and I couldn't afford to shell out on the off chance it was in a later
version.

Finally, I bought TML-II which comes with MPW thrown in and lo and
behold I find, mentioned in an obscure paragraph in the MPW manual,
something called ResEd which is exactly what I have been looking for.
The paragraph tells me to turn to the MPW Pascal Manual for more
details.  Feverishly, I turn to the TML Pascal manual (foolishly assuming
that my quest was over) and what do I find?

Not one mention of ResEd in the index.   Waaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!

(meaningful pause to regain lost demeanour.  sob)

$PUSH, ENTER_SLIGHTLY_ANNOYED_MODE$

Question to TML:  This is completely compatible with MPW-Pascal?

Question to Apple:  Do you guys really only support Pascal programmers ?  How
come there is not an interface for MPW-C and/or MPW-ASM ?

$POP$

Does anyone have these files in machine readable format?  And are they
allowed to send me a copy?  And would they (anyway) ?  Please?

+---  /_ __ ---+ Jeff Laing <jcl@hpausla.oz>   HP Australian Software Operation
|  ( / //_/ )  | ".. by the fifth generation, we'll be able to put the power of
+---   /    ---+ my brain in a pinhead. And user friendly too !!"  --  Emoh Ruo
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