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From: jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
Message-ID: <424@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Feb 89 10:48:35 GMT
References: <322@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <1234600020@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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In article <1234600020@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> thompson@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>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.
>>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?

Well, after dragging the items of a DITL roughly into the places I want them,
I find it much easier to derez it, see that some checkboxes are
about 25 pixels apart, and edit the coordinates to make them exactly so.
Easier than trying to judge it by eye in ResEdit, or by opening them all
to see the coordinates and getting zillions of overlapping windows.
And have you ever tried adding an item into the middle of a 30-item DITL?
Trivial with text, next to impossible with ResEdit.

I also dont have enough memory to run MPW or LSC and ResEdit under MultiFinder.
(Should be getting a 2meg upgrade shortly, htat may make it possible.)

> I do *all* my resource
> editing in ResEdit - it takes maybe a couple of minutes, and then
> I'm done (well, per resource, anyway).

I find that I dont make the resources once, then write the code, I edit
the resources about as often as I edit the code.  (Every time I need
another string constant - you do all use STR#s, not hardwired strings,
dont you? :-)

Anyway, I've got ResTools now (Rez+Derez as a standalone
application), now I just need to find where (in the UK) I can get
something like QuickKeys to automate switching between LSC and ResTools
(or wait till I can run both in MultiFinder).

>- Mark Thompson                       "The University Neither Knows Nor
>  Hell hath no fury - I took it all.   Cares What I Am Saying."

-- 
Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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