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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MultiFinder & ResEdit
Message-ID: <7234@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 10 May 89 19:32:08 GMT
References: <45398@XAIT.Xerox.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <45398@XAIT.Xerox.COM> jane@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Jane Eisenstein) writes:
>Are there are MultiFinder compatible versions of ResEdit?  If so, could
>someone let me know what version number(s) are MultiFinder compatible?
>I'd be willing to spring for the APDA ResEdit package, but only if I
>can run it under MultiFinder.

The current ResEdit (or at least the most recent one that I have) is
1.2b4, and it is completely MultiFinder compatible.  It also fixes a
large number of other major bugs, such as the infamous resource file
corruption if you quit without explicitly closing your changed files.
(It took me several weeks to break myself of the habit of closing every
window by hand before quitting!)

The only new bug I've observed is that the gray outlines of dialog
items have been screwed up, displaced by one pixel, so that alignment
operations and resizing operations can't be made to conform to an
implicit alignment.  For instance, say you have a user item and you
want to grow it only horizontally.  It used to be that you could grab
the corner and drag it out making sure that the outline aligned wqith
the bottom line of the item itself.  If you do that now, then you will
add one pixel to the vertical size of the item.  Similarly, you used to
be able to drag the gray outline of an item next to another item,
aligning top and bottom or right and left, then drop it, and it would
be aligned.  Now it will be off by one pixel.  This is somewhat
compensated for by the addition of an "Align to Grid" item in the new
DITL menu, but I hope it gets fixed anyway.  It's a constant bother.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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