Re: resource editor

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

"Sheppy" <the.sheppy@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mar 18, 9:38 pm, touchstone wrote:
> > does anyone know of a resource editor for gs/os that is similar to
> > 'resedit' on the mac?
> > any favorites or notables?
>
> Sadly, there aren't any really great ones.
>
> GeneSys isn't bad, but wasn't updated for the new controls added to
> System 6.  Foundation should have been fantastic, but never reached
> its full potential because there were never editor components written
> for the vast majority of useful resource types.
>
> There was also Design Master, which is another one that should have
> been great but never got updated to fix a number of frustrating quirks.

Sheppy summed it up pretty well, but I'd say there's still value in using 
Design Master or Genesys to do the initial design work, especially for 
dialog boxes and basic controls, then tweaking the resulting Rez code by 
hand to get them "right". The downside is you can't (usually) go back and 
edit the resource using the original tool, but you've still saved a lot of 
the original leg work.

BTW, I would have thought Design Master (as well as the Rez compiler) would 
appear on the Opus CD. (Although Mike didn't get rights to distribute one or 
two items, and I can't remember whether that was one of them.)
-- 
Peter Watson
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-- Impossible!  ;-)