Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!s1!jrk
From: jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MPW vs Lightspeed
Message-ID: <322@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jan 89 19:50:41 GMT
Reply-To: jrk@s1.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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I have up to now been using MPW C, but have recently been trying out
Lightspeed C.  I'd like to change over, but I have run into one large problem,
which may make it not worth while.  Does anyone have any help?

The problem is RMaker, Lightspeed's resource compiler.

1.  There doesnt seem to be any resource decompiler, an equivalent for
RMaker of MPW's Derez.  With MPW, I have hardly ever typed in a resource
description.  It's far easier to make the resource with ResEdit, Derez it,
and only then edit the resource description for things like precise alignment
of radio buttons.

2.  I *like* Lightspeed's automatic make feature, as opposed to composing
makefiles by hand in MPW, but as far as I can tell from the manuals,
Lightspeed will not automatically run RMaker when necessary.  And without
a command-line interface, you have to (1) remember which resource description
files need recompiled, (2) use Lightspeed C's Transfer command, (3) find
your way in an SFGetFile dialog over to the directory where RMaker lives,
(4) when RMaker runs, find your way back to your project directory and open
the files (having made a note - on paper! how quaint! - of which files need
compiled), (5) having compiled them, make another SFGetFile journey to
find Lightspeed C, (6) SFGetFile again back to your project directory...

Rez and Derez are MPW tools, not applications, so I cant use them instead.
I dont have enough memory to run RMaker and Lightspeed C together under
MultiFinder, which would eliminate most of the SFGetFile-ing.

Is making resources in the Lightspeed environment really as ghastly as this?
How do other people manage?
-- 
Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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