Re: Choices, choices...

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <931115.75143.DSOFT@delphi.com>
Joe Busnengo <DSOFT@delphi.com> writes:
> Ok, I have finally decided (after hours of tediously rearranging
> control sizes with Rez), to plunk down the dough for a resource
> compiler/editor.  The three that I know of are Genesys, Design
> Master, and Foundation.  Has anyone had any experience with any
> of these?

Design Master is not a resource editor.  It can only create resources.
You can save your existing work and go back to edit it later, but
there is no way to import existing resources into it - you have to do
everything from inside Design Master.

I've used Genesys quite a bit, and I'm happy with it.  The current
(and final) version doesn't support any System 6 features, which
limits it to some extent.  I've found the best solution is to use
Genesys to create Rez source code, to which I can make minor
modifications and add my own custom resource types.

Genesys can import and export individual resources, and can edit a
resource fork.  It can only edit standard resource types (menus,
windows, controls, strings, tool tables, etc.) - other types are just
displayed as hex/ascii dumps and can't be edited.

The window/control editing is very good.


I haven't seen or used Foundation, but I intend to buy it anyway.
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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