Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxf.cso.uiuc.edu!thompson From: thompson@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MPW vs Lightspeed Message-ID: <1234600020@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 27 Jan 89 17:16:00 GMT References: <322@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> Lines: 35 Nf-ID: #R:s1.sys.uea.ac.uk:322:uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:1234600020:000:1661 Nf-From: uxf.cso.uiuc.edu!thompson Jan 27 11:16:00 1989 >... 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. >... (description of horrible RMaker accessing) >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. Umm, this may sound dumb, but if you're in ResEdit in the first place, why not do your "precise alignment" there? I do *all* my resource editing in ResEdit - it takes maybe a couple of minutes, and then I'm done (well, per resource, anyway). And then, of course, you just stick the resources you want linked with your file into the .rsrc file, and let LSC do the linking upon "Build Appl". Never a worry, and never a need to run another program. Once my resources are done, I never leave LSC. And adding another resource is just one program switch away (and with OnCue, it's *no* problem... heck, I added the .rsrc file as a document to ResEdit, and everything's happy now!) As mentioned in the manual, if you want to test it before "Build"ing it, just add an "OpenResFile" call to the top of main. (Of course, if you're writing a DA (like me at the moment), you need to build it anyway, so...) - Mark Thompson "The University Neither Knows Nor Hell hath no fury - I took it all. Cares What I Am Saying." University of Illinois at U-C ARPANET: thompson@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu USMAILNET: 202 E Springfield #3B, Champaign IL 61820