mwm@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (04/13/87)
One of the things that Mac users never fail to point out (at least to me) is that the Amiga doesn't have Mac-like "resources." These allow Mac users to tailor the user-visible part (menu entries, window size/placement, error messages, etc.) of applications without twisting the source code. The favorite example of this is changing an application from English to Spanish: "You just edit the resource file." Well, with MWB and ADD, it looks like we aren't far from that on the Amiga. At least for the stuff that Intuition gets to see. How about an enhanced version of ADD/MWB, so that you can put every file in a wrapper that looks like: MWB <tool>.mwb run <tool> wait 15 ADD <tool>.add Better yet, a "resource" compiler: you feed it descriptions for ADD and MWB, plus a program name, and it moves the program, and replaces it with an executeable that sets up the MWB environment, runs the copied version of the program, then does the ADDs for it. Anyone feel like doing this, or something similar? It'd be an interesting exercise, but I'm not sure I'd find it usefull enough to do it myself. <mike -- Here's a song about absolutely nothing. Mike Meyer It's not about me, not about anyone else, ucbvax!mwm Not about love, not about being young. mwm@berkeley.edu Not about anything else, either. mwm@ucbjade.BITNET