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1. resource IDs For example ee A J E z 3 POST Default starting ID 128 nrct resources representing E Pe E Control Panel dialogs should Add type to list Remove type from list lt gt have an ID of 4064 vers resources an ID of 1 or 2 save amp 0K Cancel SIZE resources an ID of 1 Standard application resources generally should have IDs greater than or equal to 128 The second is that many programmers prefer to organize ID ranges above 128 according to type In particular you might want all your DLOG resources and their DITL s etc to have IDs starting at 200 all ALRT resources and their DITL s etc to have IDs starting at 500 and so forth When you ask Resorcerer to create a new resource it in turn may ask you to specify the type and other attributes of the new resource A resource ID is then allocated as an initial choice for that resource type The file to which the new resource is being added is then searched for any existing resource of the same type whose ID may conflict with the initial choice If there is a conflict the initial choice is incremented by 1 and the search continues until a free ID for that type is found This ID is then assigned to the new resource The initial choice for a given type is determined by the list on this card of the Preferences dialog If a type is not in the list then the initial choice is taken from the Default starting ID field which should usuall2. CONFIRM INDIVIDUAL RESOURCE SAVES When you close an individual resource after editing and you have made changes to that What do you want done with these resource while it was open and resources before saving the entire file Confirm individual resource saves has been checked Resorcerer will require Save and Close Cancel confirmation that you want to save changes back to the in memory copy of the file which remains open and unsaved The changes are held in memory until you save the entire file later A There are still open resources that have been changed Save them Ignore them We recommend that beginners keep the Confirm resource saves option on However more experienced users may eventually want to turn this feature off Resources saved back to memory can still be reverted individually from the last saved version of the file on disk CONFIRM RESOURCE CANCELS AND REVERTS If you have made changes to a resource that is still open and have asked to cancel or revert the editing session and Confirm resource cancels and reverts has been checked Resorcerer will require confirmation that you do indeed want to discard your changes Since you can cancel any resource editing session with 3 period it is usually a good idea to keep this option checked Warn WHEN OPENING A LOCKED FILE With this preference set Resorcerer puts up an alert whenever you open a locked file to warn you not to do any wor
3. various options pertaining to Resorcerer s window displays View Preferences Y jE E Show resource sizes Show full pathnames for files E Save editor window positions Don t display resource data initially Snow RESOURCE SIZES When this preference is set Resorcerer displays the size in bytes of each resource in the Resources List of a File Window Snow FULL PATHNAMES FOR FILES Normally Resorcerer only displays a file s name in the File Window When you check Show full pathnames for files however the File Window will display the full pathname of the file that is the name of every folder that contains the folder that contains the folder that contains the file starting with the volume the file is found on Usually you will know which files you have opened are which However sometimes you may have two files open that have the same name but are in different folders and setting this option is necessary for telling them apart SAVE EDITOR WINDOW POSITIONS Each individual editor can save and restore window positions when this preference is set Window positions are only maintained by each resource editor s main window positions of sub windows or item windows are not stored in the preferences file The WYSIWYG Dialog Editor however continues to open windows based on the actual resource data If an editor such as the Data or Code Hex Editor is PREFERENCES respon
4. off Note Resorcerer does not perform any complex disk swapping or other buffering schemes when treating your data fork like other resources If the entire data fork cannot fit into memory along with a backup copy if you open and close it more than once you won t be able to edit large data forks For instance you may not be able to search an entire resource file that has a large data fork 345 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 346 RESOURCE FILE SUFFIX When you create a new resource file Resorcerer will ask you to name the file before you can save it Typically you have a favorite suffix that you add to the name of the file to let yourself know that it is a file of resources You should enter that suffix in the Resource file suffix field so that Resorcerer can automatically place it in the edit box of the Standard Output File dialog for you Newly shipped copies of Resorcerer have this field set to rsrc Script FILE SUFFIX Resorcerer recognizes text script files by looking at their name s suffix You can set the suffix to whatever you want using this preference Newly shipped copies of Resorcerer have this field set to rc to distinguish Resorcerer scripts from Rez source files TEXT FILE CREATOR This field lets you declare the 4 character creator type of any TEXT files that Resorcerer might make such as prototype code that the Dialog Editor creates The new file can then be opened by the application whose creator
5. shows you File Preferences Favorite Files groups of related Synonym Preferences preferences Each New ID Preferences Default Attribute Bits group is viewed in an index card like area whose title is printed in cane GOK Caiicel a tab at the top of the card The tab contains a pop up menu that lets you see the titles of all the different sections of the dialog The information contained in all these preferences is kept on disk and is looked up and installed each time you run Resorcerer In the lower left corner of the preferences area are two arrows that let you sequentially go through the sectionss in the same order as their titles appear in the pop up menu The upper arrow takes you to the previous section the lower arrow to the next one Below the preferences area are three buttons labeled OK Save amp OK and Cancel They are placed below as an indication that they refer to the Preferences dialog as a whole that is all sections and not to any one section in it TEMPORARY PREFERENCES The OK button temporarily installs the choices you have made in all preferences until you change them again or until you quit the application When you quit your preference settings will revert to their last saved value on disk SAVED PREFERENCES The Save amp OK button installs the choices you have made in all preferences until you change them again and also saves them to disk This sets the current preferences
6. E LIST Select either an original type or a specific synonym of an original type Doing so makes either the original types list or the synonyms list the active list Then click on the Remove synonym button If the original types list is active then the type and all synonyms of that type are removed Ifthe synonyms list is active then only that synonym of the original type is removed If you remove the last synonym of an original type from the synonyms list then the entry for the type will be removed from the originals list Sorcery 36Z or d6V will undo the previous Remove synonym 36C is the keyboard equivalent of Remove synonym Note Resorcerer only resolves one level of synonyms You cannot declare a synonym to be a synonym of some other synonym If you do Resorcerer will not recognize the second reference and thus may only let you edit it using the Hex Editor 350 PREFERENCES New Resource ID PREFERENCES This section of the Preferences dialog lets you tell Resorcerer how you want it to allocate resource IDs when creating new resources of any given type There are two reasons for wanting to do this The first New ID Preferences v reason 18 that certain card gt When creating an ID for a new resources are required by PEES n resource of these types ti t h t A MENU search for the first free ID at convention to have certain mstr or after the IDs listed here
7. PREFERENCES INTRODUCTION This chapter explains the operation of Resorcerer s Preferences dialog which lets you control various aspects of Resorcerer s user interface The dialog is available to you whenever you choose Preferences from the Edit menu Individual Editors such as Resorcerer s Dialog Editor may also maintain their own set of preferences available to you via their own private Preferences command See the chapter documenting the individual Editor for more information on any Editor specific preferences Resorcerer stores its saved preferemces in its Duplicate Selection Value Converter Send Behind Show Clipboard Get Info Preferences Resorcerer Preferences file in the Preferences folder in your system folder If this file is not found there Resorcerer creates it and sets all preferences to their default settings Topics COVERED Setting preferences General preferences Selection preferences Confirmation preferences View preferences File open preferences File preferences Setting your favorite files Resource synonym preferences New resource ID preferences New resource attribute preferences Preferences preferences 331 RESORCERER USER MANUAL SETTING PREFERENCES When you choose Preferences from General Preferences Confirm Preferences the Edit menu Selection Preferences Resorcerer displays a Miei Preferences File Open Preferences dialog that
8. a new Macintosh system it will ask you if you want to continue using faster scanning This lets you leave faster scanning on without having to worry about this possible future problem sneaking up on you ASK FOR First INPUT FILE AT STARTUP When Resorcerer first starts up you will usually want it immediately to ask you which file to open However you may want to use your preset Quick Open favorite file list instead see the next section for more on this bypassing the initial Get Input File dialog altogether To do so uncheck the Ask for first input file as startup preference ASK FOR ADDITIONAL INPUT FILES UNTIL CANCEL Occasionally you have to open many files at once If you want Resorcerer to automatically continue asking you for files so that you don t for instance have to re issue the Open File command to get each file then check this preference Resorcerer continues to request a file specification until you click in the Cancel button of the dialog requesting the file name You will generally want this option turned off PREFERENCES OPEN LasT SELECTED RESOURCE IN FAVORITE FILES Resorcerer usually restores the selection state of the File Window for any file you open with your Favorite Files menu If you find yourself constantly re opening a favorite file and then re opening one particular resource you can set this preference so that the last opened resource gets opened for editing when you re open the file This is help
9. code you have entered here Resorcerer is shipped with this field set to KAHL the creator code for Symantec s THINK C development environment If you use a different development system you will probably prefer to use its creator code To determine another system s creator type open one of its text files such as a source code file with Resorcerer it will likely have no resources in it since the text is kept in the data fork Choose Finder Info in the File menu to view the file s Finder information which includes the creator code for that file PREFERENCES FAVORITE FILES Resorcerer lets you keep a list of your favorite or most commonly opened files directly in its File menu The list appears as a hierarchical menu under the File menu s Quick Open command In order to change it you must edit it here in the Preferences dialog Typically you will want to keep the names of the resource files of the various projects you re currently working on in this list Since the projects you re working on will usually be in different folders the favorite files list Semeur fie from Hsi can be quite handy when it comes to re opening them Save amp OK Cancel ADDING A FILE TO THE LIST The list is empty Choose a file to add to your list of initially and displays a favorites blinking caret at its top to indicate where a new entry will be inser
10. files File Open Preferences Y E For faster file opens scan resource maps directly E Ask for first input file at startup Ask for additional input files until Cancel Open last selected resource in favorite files EJ Make ROM resources look like an openable file E Change ResEdit files into Resorcerer files Ignore TMPL s in opened files 341 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 342 For Faster FILE OPENS SCAN RESOURCE Maps DIRECTLY With this preference set Resorcerer uses a much faster method of reading in all of a file s resource information during opening It does this by directly scanning a data structure called the file s resource map which is the resource file s internal table of contents However it is possible that in future Macintosh systems Apple will change the format of resource maps in which case Resorcerer s faster scanning algorithm will almost certainly break If this happens you should turn this preference off and Resorcerer will use the standard Resource Manager routines to read your file Although this latter method can be much slower than direct scanning at least it will still work In any case if Apple does change the internal format it will probably do so precisely to speed up the standard Resource Manager routines Because of the possibility that Apple will change resource maps in the future each time Resorcerer notices that you have upgraded to
11. ful for instance during debugging when you have to close a project resource file in order to run a test of your application from THINK C Usually you will want to keep this preference turned off Make ROM Resources Look LIKE AN OPENABLE FILE With this preference set Resorcerer creates a standard empty file with the title System ROM Resources in your System folder if one isn t there already When you open this file Resorcerer ignores resources that might be in it typically there are none and instead pretends that only those resources found in your Macintosh ROM are in it The file is marked locked since you can t save any changes back to ROM If this preference is turned off Resorcerer will treat the file the same as any other file in which case it scans the file s own resources This lets you open browse or copy some important resources that otherwise remain hidden such as the Color Quickdraw standard clut s This feature only works when you have the Scan resource maps directly preference also turned on The name of the ROM file is configurable since it is kept in one of Resorcerer s own STR resources If you open your Mac s ROM often you can add the file to your Favorite Files list in the same way you would any other file We recommend that you leave this preference set 343 RESORCERER USER MANUAL CHANGE ResEntT FILES INTO RESORCERER FILES Resorcerer can open the files of any other application For
12. k on the in memory copy since it won t be saveable When browsing lots of locked files such as might be found on a CD ROM volume you will want to turn this preference off WARN WHEN OPENING A READ ONLY PROJECTOR FILE With this preference set Resorcerer alerts you whenever you open a Projector file that has been checked out read only 337 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 338 CONFIRM POSSIBLE INCOMPLETE RESOURCE SELECTIONS Every time you select a major resource the possibility exists that there are minor resources related to it that you also want to select so that they may be included in the operation you wish to do For instance when you cut a DLOC resource to the clipboard you invariably want to cut its related minor DITL resource as well The same goes for copying pasting etc Resorcerer automatically selects owned and related minor resources if you have checked the two selection preferences to do so see the next section Selection Preferences for more on this If however one of the two is unchecked then you will probably want to be asked whether to complete a requested operation with its related resources if there are any If this is how you want to work Confirm possibly incomplete resource selections will be enabled and you should check it Uncheck Confirm possibly incomplete resource selections if you do not want to be bothered by the confirmation This preference is disabled when both the selectio
13. log window the first time you use the menu command to doit When Hints is unchecked no automatic hint alerts will be raised Each time Hints is rechecked the hint mechanism is reset so that hints that have been raised once can be raised one more time 333 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 334 AUTOMATICALLY CONVERT QUOTES When Automatically convert quotes is checked Resorcerer will convert any or characters you type into paired or characters This capability is sometimes known as smart quotes When this preference is unchecked all and characters are used as is Note Individual Editors have the prerogative of turning this feature off For instance the Text Editor lets you turn smart quotes on or off regardless of the value of this preference Sorcery If smart quotes are in effect you can still type a or by holding the 38 key down Use DOUBLE CLICK ON A TYPE TO SHOW RESOURCES Normally you need only click once on a type in a files Types List to enter all resources of that type into the Resources List while the Types List stays the Active List This is generally quite nice for browsing but under certain circumstances may get in the way of what you want to do When Use double click on a type to show resources is checked you must double click on a type to fill the Resources List with all resources of that type Doing so makes the the Resources List the Active List Regardless of the setting of this prefe
14. matically sorted has a special list insertion caret that shows precisely where you can create or paste items Normally the caret in active lists blinks in an analogous manner to a text caret If you find this distracting you can turn blinking off with this preference Don t Export RESOURCES TO THE DESK SCRAP When you switch to another application Resorcerer exports to the Macintosh clipboard file all selected resources from its private accumulating Resource Scrap file It treats each resource s data as a separate piece of scrap data using the resource type as the scrap type In addition it places all selected resources into a single piece of scrap that holds resource attributes IDs and names as well as the data and exports that too for more on this see the Scrap Types section of the Configuring Resorcerer chapter Since Resorcerer s private scrap file can accumulate many resources at once it is possible for the above export to take a lot of time and waste a lot of space exporting two copies of every selected resource The Mac s scrap mechanism can also have difficulty with large amounts of data When the Don t export resources to the desk scrap preference is set resources in the private Resource Scrap file are not exported We recommend that you leave this preference turned off so that cutting 335 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 336 and pasting individual common resources such as PICT s or snd s w
15. n preferences are checked again see the next section both here in the manual and the next card in the Preferences dialog SELECTION PREFERENCES The Selection Preferences section Selection Preferences lets you tell Resorcerer E Include owned resources along with owners whether it should E Include related minor resources in selections automatically extend selections of resources Because Resorcerer only lets you view one type of resource at a time in its Resources List you are likely to want to extend the selection of a major resource to include any minor ones that are not in view Sometimes though you may prefer to operate solely on the selected resource in the Resources List E ientirm possibly incomplele resource seiee tions PREFERENCES INCLUDE RELATED MINOR RESOURCES IN SELECTION With Include related minor resources in selection checked Resorcerer automatically includes a major resource s minor resources along with the major in various operations such as cutting and pasting For example when you select a MENU for copying to the clipboard and it has a related mctb resource you probably will want to copy the mctb too But it is not visible since the Resources List is displaying MENU s not mctb s If this option is on the mctb with the same ID as the MENU will be copied also if it exists in the same file We recommend that the Include rela
16. o reorder the files in the list to suit your tastes you can use 3X to Cut the file pathname from the list then 36V to Paste it back in wherever the list insertion caret is placed The Undo command is also available via its usual key equivalent 3Z SETTING THE KEYBOARD EQUIVALENT FOR ONE FAVORITE FILE Normally there is one file in your favorite files list that you are currently working with and the act of opening it via the Quick Open favorite file menu assigns a keyboard equivalent L for Last file to it You can assign the keyboard equivalent character to any file in the list without opening the file by selecting it in the Favorite Files card of the Preferences dialog When you click either OK or Save amp OK in the Preferences dialog the selected favorite file in the Quick Open sub menu is assigned the key equivalent If no file in the list remains selected then no file name in the menu will be assigned the command key PREFERENCES SYNONYM PREFERENCES The Synonym Preferences section lets you declare which resource types Resorcerer should treat as synonyms of other existing resource types A number of standard Add synonym Remove Suponga Macintosh resource types are synonyms of each other and Save amp OK Cancel these synonyms are already installed in your lists On the left side of the dialog you will see the list of original re
17. orks as you would expect CONFIRM PREFERENCES The Confirm Preferences section lets you set how you want Resorcerer to confirm various situations where data or work might be lost contirm Preferentes w E Confirm file saves Confirm open resources before Save File E Confirm individual resource saves E Confirm resource cancels and reverts Warn when opening a locked file E Warn when opening a read only Projector file E Confirm possibly incomplete resource selections CONFIRM FILE SAVES When you close a file that you have made changes to while it was open Resorcerer will confirm with you whether you want to save the changes back to the disk If this affronts your sense of confidence you can uncheck the Confirm file saves preference here in which case Resorcerer will automatically save your changes to disk without asking We recommend that most users keep Confirm file saves on CONFIRM OPEN RESOURCES BEFORE SAVE FILE Normally when you choose Save File Resorcerer records on disk the changes you ve made to your open file so far If any resources are open for editing their current values are saved Occasionally you may want to do something special with resources that are open With this preference set Resorcerer will provide you with some choices as to what to do with your open resources We recommend that you leave this preference turned off PREFERENCES
18. rence double clicking on a type makes the Resources List the Active List Resource data is displayed or not based on the setting of the Show data setting in the View menu Use FULL SCREEN HEIGHT WHEN OPENING FILES When Resorcerer creates a File Window on the desktop the window is kept fairly small to conserve screen space on the standard Mac screen If you are using a larger screen however you may want to check the Use full screen height when opening files preference so that more types are visible at once in the File Window When you read a file the File Window s height is computed so as to display all the resource types in the Types List If this height is larger than the height of your main screen then the screen height is used PREFERENCES Lock RESOURCE INFO BUT NOT DATA When this preference is checked Resorcerer will not let you change any resource s type ID number name or attribute bits Resource data however remains editable Resorcerer will complain if you attempt to change any resource information while this preference is set Lock resource info but not data provides an extra measure of protection while you edit an existing application s resources Use OUTLINE Fonts IF AVAILABLE When running under System 7 or greater Resorcerer will give preference to existing system bitmap fonts over TrueType outline fonts unless this preference is set Don t BLINK List INSERTION CARET Any Resorcerer list that is not auto
19. sible for editing more than one resource type window positions are remembered on a resource type by type basis Don t SHow RESOURCE Data INITIALLY Normally Resorcerer tries to show some or all of a resource s data when you click on a type to fill the Resource List If a resource s data is corrupted or otherwise wildly different from its standard form the SHOW code resource that Resorcerer calls upon to draw the value may not be robust enough to deal with the corrupt data This is particularly acute for PICT resources that have been compressed with third party compression utilities that unfortunately are non standardized and usually leave no trace of their secret work Attempting to show a corrupted or compressed PICT resource which will be passed to the toolbox s DrawPicture will very likely crash Resorcerer When this preference is set Resorcerer sets every resource type in any file you open to hide data when displaying resources of that type in the Resources List This lets you browse through a file of compressed resources without having to worry about which ones are going to cause problems For more information on how to show and hide resource data see the Editing Files chapter We recommend that you leave this preference off FILE OPEN PREFERENCES The File Open Preferences section of the Preferences dialog lets you set various options concerning how Resorcerer opens files or how it treats opened
20. so that they will be in effect every time you run the application 332 PREFERENCES CANCELLING THE PREFERENCES DIALOG The Cancel button discards any changes you ve made to any of the preferences while the dialog has been showing and reverts to what they were prior to choosing Preferences from the Edit menu GENERAL PREFERENCES The General Preferences section lets you set miscellaneous interface options General Preferences Y EJ Hints Automatically convert quotes Use double click on a type to show resources Use full screen height when opening files Lock resource info types ID s etc but not data Use outline fonts if available Don t blink list insertion caret Don t export resources to desk scrap Save amp OK Cancel HINTS When Hints is checked Resorcerer will provide you with a hint the first time you use a feature that is non obvious non standard or otherwise hidden and hard to remember Typically such situations arise when something works differently when the Option or Shift or 36 key is held down or when there is a shortcut around a menu command Once the hint is given it is usually not given again while the program is running Individual resource Editors can check the value of this preference and should behave accordingly For example the Dialog Editor will alert you to a keyboard shortcut for moving or growing a dia
21. source types The right side contains a list of all synonyms of any given selected type in the left side Only one entry in either list may be selected at one time VIEWING ALL SYNONYMS OF A GIVEN TYPE When you click on any one type in your types S Synonym Preferences list the right hand list Tup s Sunonqmis a d tiles is filled with all the STR fs acth AlertColorTable STR ecth ControlColorT able synonyms of that type RI j daco DiaogCotor Tabie In addition each wetb WindowColorTable synonym type can have a descriptive title string associated with it which is displayed next to it Ke Ke Add synonym Remove Synonym Save amp OK Cancel One or the other of these lists is considered the active list with respect to editing operations and the active list like other situations in Resorcerer where pairs of lists exist in the same view is indicated by a bold border around it 349 RESORCERER USER MANUAL ADDING SYNONYMS TO THE LIST Regardless of which list is active you can add a synonym to the collection by clicking in the Add synonym button This brings up a small dialog that lets you specify the original type and the new synonym type as well as descriptive title string to use Treat resources of type as synonyms of type Menu title to use estyColorTable REMOVING SYNONYMS FROM TH
22. ted D WindoidWDEF c h To add a favorite file to A eel the list click in the Add file to list button a You will be asked to Show all files Yj Resolve aliases Yj specify a file in a folder using the standard Get Input File dialog Favorite Files Y HD Ilci Projects THINK C THINK Class Library 1 1 Fi Once you ve chosen a favorite file click in the Add button of the Get Input File dialog The full pathname of the file is entered into the list at Radiata lick the position indicated by the list insertion caret After adding the entry Remove file from list 347 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 348 the caret is advanced and the new entry is selected If want to add a script file to your list make sure the file type popup is set to re scripts only so that Resorcerer will run the script instead of opening it Sorcery You can double click on either side of the list insertion caret to add a file to the list REMOVING A FILE FROM THE LIST Select the file pathname in the list that you want to delete Then click the Remove file from list button to cut it from the list Sorcery 3X is the keyboard equivalent of Remove file from list REARRANGING YOUR FAVORITE FILES LIST The Preferences dialog is a modal dialog so you cannot get at the standard editing commands in the Edit menu However their command key equivalents are still available If you want t
23. ted minor resources in selections preferences be kept checked INCLUDE OWNED RESOURCES ALONG WITH OWNERS The relationship between owned and owner resources is similar to that between minor and major resources Certain types of resources such as DRVR s and various definition functions can own other resources of different types that are not visible when you select the owner in the Resources List With this preference checked all owned resources will be included in a selection of just the owner resource We recommend that the Include owned resources along with owners preferences be kept checked CONFIRM POSSIBLY INCOMPLETE RESOURCE SELECTIONS Normally when both the Include related minor resources in selections and the Include owned resources along with owners preferences are checked the Confirm possibly incomplete resource selections preference is disabled If one of the first two preferences is not checked however the Confirm possibly incomplete resource selections preference is enabled since you will probably want Resorcerer to remind you that for instance you are copying an ALRT resource without including the minor resource s related to it that are also in the file The Confirm possibly incomplete resource selections preference is also available in the previous Confirm Preferences section 339 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 340 VIEW PREFERENCES The View Preferences section of the Preferences dialog lets you set
24. th a minimal resource editing template in it but you still want to edit resources with your own full featured template For instance you may only want to document or allow your users to edit certain parts of a custom resource We recommend that you leave this preference turned off 344 PREFERENCES FILE PREFERENCES The File Preferences section of the Preferences dialog lets you set options concerning files File Preferences Y E Edit data fork as resource lt DF gt Resource file suffix Script file suffix TEHT file creator Epit Data FORK AS RESOURCE With this preference set Resorcerer treats the data fork of any resource file it opens as a pseudo resource of the given type and ID This lets you use Resorcerer s Hex Editor Data Editor and other tools to edit parse or analyze any data fork as easily as any other resource When this option is on newly created files always have one resource in them the data fork resource If you make a change to the data in this resource the entire data fork is overwritten with the new data when you save the file If you change the type or ID of the data fork resource this is equivalent to copying all the data fork s data into a newly created real resource of the new type and or ID and deleting all the data in the data fork when you save the file We recommend that you leave this preference turned
25. this reason Resorcerer never assigns its own icon to any existing file you open and change with it unless you explicitly change the file s Finder type code Resource files created with ResEdit like any other file are openable with Resorcerer but not if you double click on them in the Finder If you would prefer to have Resorcerer open them when you double click on one you have to change the file into a Resorcerer file When this preference is set Resorcerer will explicitly change the file type of any ResEdit created file so that the Finder will display it as a Resorcerer file This occurs automatically and immediately when you open the file and does not cause any confirmation alert later on when you close the file Resorcerer will let you know about the change as it makes it The Resorcerer s only file filtering setting in the Open File dialog will include ResEdit created files as well when this preference is on Naturally we strongly recommend that you leave this preference permanently on IGNorE TMPL s In OPENED FILES When opening a custom resource with a template Resorcerer will normally give precedence to a template TMPL in the same file as the custom resource Sometimes though you may prefer to use a template in your Private Templates folder regardless of any templates in the file you are editing In this case you should turn this preference on This situation occurs when you want to ship a file wi
26. y be set to 128 For more on the process of allocating new IDs see the discussion of creating new resources in the previous chapter Editing Resources 351 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 352 ADDING A New ID To THE LIST To add a new type and starting ID to the list click in the Add type to list button A dialog asks you to fill in the appropriate fields and the entry is added to the list REMOVING AN ID PREFERENCE FROM THE LIST To remove an entry from the list first select it by clicking on it and then click on the Remove type from list button Sorcery 3X is the key equivalent of Remove type from list 36V or Z puts the last removed entry back into the list New RESOURCE ATTRIBUTE PREFERENCES This section of the Preferences dialog lets you Default Attribute Bits vw tell Resorcerer what For new DLOG resources use resource attributes you want cme T E s amp s Purgeable 5 A f 2 Preload it to assign when creating hmnu E 8 Locked new resources of any es E o Protected hret E SysHeap selected type hide y horr Add type to list Remove type from list The most common default attribute is the purgeable bit which you can use for a variety of standard Mac resources such as dialog and alert templates DLOG s and ALRT s balloon help etc To add a new type and its attributes to the list click in the Add t
27. ype to list button and enter the new type To remove an entry from the list first select it by clicking on it and then click on the Remove type from list button Sorcery X is the key equivalent of Remove type from list 36 V or 3 Z puts the last removed entry back into the list PREFERENCES PREFERENCES PREFERENCES Resorcerer s Preferences dialog is designed in such a way that adding preferences to later versions of the program can be done easily without any disruptive change in the way you interact with it When you leave the Preferences dialog via the OK or Save amp OK buttons the section you were in is remembered so that the next time you enter the dialog Resorcerer can place you back in the same place This position is also saved on disk when you choose the Save OK button Thus if you wish the Preferences dialog to always come up in a favorite section go to that section by choosing it from the pop up menu of section titles and click in the Save amp OK button 353 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 354 PREFERENCES 355 RESORCERER USER MANUAL 356
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