MSER001@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger) (08/29/89)
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I have a question about the new Resource Manager, and how it is use.
For example on a mac with MPW you would include the Types.r which tell
what a 'DLOG' should look like, along with other types of resources.
A Macintosh(sorry, but no other examples are available to me which use
a resource) would look something like this.
#include "Types.r"
resource 'DLOG' (130, "Dialog1") {
{39, 70, 139, 431},
dBoxProc,
invisible,
noGoAway,
0x1,
130,
"Dialog1"
};
How would a person create a new style resource on the IIGS? Also,
what types of resources are standard, or available. Has anyone used
the resource manager yet? Or should I say toolset 30? Even if the header
is not available, I would guess that we could make our own header, but
would probably need a resource compiler or something?
Scott hutinger mser001@ecncdc.bitnetdlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (08/30/89)
In article <8908291002.aa11691@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> MSER001@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger) writes: >[...] >I have a question about the new Resource Manager, and how it is use. >For example on a mac with MPW you would include the Types.r which tell >what a 'DLOG' should look like, along with other types of resources. >A Macintosh(sorry, but no other examples are available to me which use >a resource) would look something like this. [...] You can do extremely similar stuff with the APW "Rez" resource compiler that will be available from APDA. >How would a person create a new style resource on the IIGS? Also, >what types of resources are standard, or available. Has anyone used >the resource manager yet? I won't try to describe all the standard resource types here--they're in the documentation APDA will have. I know there are people out there using the Resource Manager--don't know whether their products are commercially available yet. (The system itself uses the resource manager in some instances.) If you want to create your own resources and don't have "Rez", you can always write a little program to create them--an extremely miniature resource compiler, for example, could take a list of files and resource types/IDs, and cram each file into an appropriate resource. It would do this by making Resource Manager calls like CreateResourceFile, OpenResourceFile, AddResource, and CloseResourceFile (as well as GS/OS calls to read file contents into handles provided by NewHandle). --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
lwv@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG (Larry Virden) (08/31/89)
David, will the GS Rez be APW specific, or will it be a separate item that folks with Orca/C could purchase and use? Does it produce C code, or just resource files, or what? I am not up much on resources <sigh>. -- Larry Virden via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!lwv INET: lwv@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (09/02/89)
In article <21295.24FCBFB2@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> lwv@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG (Larry Virden) writes: >David, will the GS Rez be APW specific, or will it be a separate item >that folks with Orca/C could purchase and use? Does it produce C code, >or just resource files, or what? I am not up much on resources ><sigh>. It won't be APW specific--it'll work fine under the ORCA shells, too. Rez just produces files with resource forks; it doesn't produce source code that you then need to compile. --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (09/03/89)
In article <21295.24FCBFB2@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> lwv@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG (Larry Virden) writes: >David, will the GS Rez be APW specific, or will it be a separate item >that folks with Orca/C could purchase and use? If it worked under APW, why wouldn't it work under the Orca shell?