CompuServe Thread

Dave, The AppMaker document *is* a resource file. You can open it and modify it with ResEdit. Conversely, you can open any existing resource file with AppMaker. When you generate code with AppMaker, it looks at whatever resources are in the resource file at that time. So you can make changes to the AppMaker document with ResEdit or Resorceror, then generate code to correspond to the changed resources. Of course, you usually add new resources rather than modify existing resources. (E.g. you add cursor resources) Spec

> I have just started using AppMaker and am wondering if there are any > dicey consequences of using ResEdit on the created resource files. David, I do that all the time (except of course I use Resorcerer; ymmv). AppMaker creates perfectly normal Macintosh resources in a perfectly normal Macintosh resource fork. Oh, there is one caveat. Depending on what version of ResEdit you have, you might have a problem looking at DITLs that have the custom AppMaker items like pop-up menus or lists. That's probably the only non-standard thing in AppMaker (it creates things like pop-up menus by making a user item and encoding extra information in the item data, which is normally 0 for a user item). Resorcerer knows about AppMaker's extra items. ResEdit will show them as plain user items.