Re: menubar in window ( infobar )

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <jmk3.732586337@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>>(btw, all future releases of Two Meg products will be under the "You tamper
>>with the resources, you no get tech suppor" licence :)
> 
>  I don't think I need to tell you (but I am), but this defeats half
>the purpose of resources. Resource are 1>easy for programmers to edit w/o
>recompiling and 2>easy for users w/o the source to recompile.
> 
>People can rearrange menus, assign key equivs, translate to foreign languages.
>I believe the foreign language use was the original motivator of Apple
>implementing resources.

People can also seriously fuck up programmers.  IMHO, point 2) isn't what
Apple intended to be done with resources.  Resource make it easy for the
PROGRAMMER (who knows what his/her code expects of the resources) to change
things.  Users should not tamper with them, or risk having the program
blow up in their face.




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