Re: Programming the GS

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Sep 22, 7:52 pm, Oracle <oraclemas...@inwind.it> wrote:
> On 7 Set, 13:22, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > If you wish to take my advice and start with CompletePascal, I
> > suggest you:
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> Hi Mike,
> there is an alternative resource editor (I've many trouble with the
> Complete Pascal one's)?
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> Do you know where I can find a TML Source Library II?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Mauro

Hi Mauro,

There are alternatives. I too have found bugs in CP's resource editor.

Some things to try:
1) Funnily enough, I have found some of the "broken" parts of CP's
resource editor work fine in the earlier TML Pascal II. I guess some
bugs were introduced into CP (as well as some being fixed). You can
get the older TML Pascal II disks from my web site here -
http://apple2.sytes.net/TML_Pascal/index.html
2) Foundation resource editor - http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/foundation-v1-02.html
3) Genesys resource editor - http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/genesys
4) Design Master resource editor - http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/design-master-v2-0
(Commercial)
5) Rez resource editor (Commercial?)

Unfortunately, I have no experience using either Foundation or
Genesys, and very little experience using Design Master. I generally
use Rez these days (it came with the Opus ][ distro). I believe that
all of these resource editors (apart from Rez which is text based) are
either incomplete or buggy for various reasons - Design Master and
Genesys were developed prior to System 6 being released I believe, and
Foundation was never fully completed to cover all resource types.

So, if you can get by with TML Pascal's resource editor you're
probably going to find it easiest, as you are already familiar with
how it *should* work.

Sadly resource editing is one area of IIgs development that never
really got the "all-singing-all-dancing, bells-and-whistles"
application.  :-(

Good luck, and let us know how you get on.

Cheers,
Mike