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From: david@ics.ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
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Subject: resource editing (was Re: To UIL or not to UIL?)
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Date: 9 Feb 90 16:27:34 GMT
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>From: blean@rwb.sgi.com (Bob Blean)
>>	1) A way to dump the complete set of resources from
>>	   an Xt based application.
>>	2) A WYSIWYG resource editor.
>
>HEAR!  HEAR!  These things are really needed if people who neither need to
>know not want to know about X stuff are to be comfortable with an X situation.
>
>X configuration today is NOT easy for most of the people we want to be using
>our computers.  That has to change.

As far as (2) goes:

The OSF/Motif 1.0 release has a demo program called the Motif Resource Editor
by Mitch Trachtenberg of OSF.  (This is the program featured in the User's
Guide.) This program does help in changing values for resources.

A portion of the README:
MRE allows you to conveniently view and edit your resource files.  MRE's
internal rules, which may be extended by a user-supplied file, allow it
to determine whether resources are colors, fonts, files, or other types.
Based on its determination of the type of a resource, MRE provides an
appropriate editing mechanism: colorbars for colors, a font selection window
for fonts, a file selection window for files, and a simple text window
for others.


and as far as (1):
strings isn't sufficient for you?!


David B. Lewis  david@ics.com  david%ics.UUCP@bu.edu  ...!uunet!ics.com!david

"Direct manipulation has its place, and in many regards is part of the joys of
life: sports, food, sex, and for some, driving." -- Nicholas Negroponte,
Director, MIT Media Lab, in SIGGRAPH 1989 Keynote Address