Re: Uses for Resources (was Re: MS-DOS FST?)

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

Jim Murphy <murph@apple.com> writes:

>      Let's see...with a resource-based interface you can
>internationalize your programs easily, you don't need to compile your

How is it so much easier? You still need to translate. Whether you translate
to .c file or the .rez file it's the same thing.

>code just to see what a window looks like moved 2 pixels, resources can

But you still need to compile the resources.

>be loaded on an as-needed basis so memory is conserved, programs like
>Finder can store information with a file such as its icon/version/etc.

Finder is too dependant on such information.

>You can store any type of data in a resource, and you can quickly access
>it using the facilities of the Resource Manager. There are literally

You don't need rez to do that.

In my previous post, I gave some reasons why resources are bad and how
things could have been better.
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