You need DropRSR from Metrowerks
(http://www.metrowerks.com/pda/palm/extras/Utilities/). The tool runs only
on a Mac but I can convert rsrc back and forth between windows and mac.
on 3/5/01 12:40 PM, James Preston at [EMAIL PROTECTED] arranged bits to form:
>
> Hi, all. I do my Palm development on a Mac using CodeWarrior. I recently
> have a need to do some joint development with someone who is on Windows (also
> using CW). There is a big problem when it comes to copying the resource file
> back and forth. I found a nice article in the Palm knowledbe base that
> outlines
> the problem: http://oasis.palm.com/dev/kb/faq/1503.cfm
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has done this in practice and could help? Ideally,
> I'd like some way to generate the "flattened" resource file on the Mac. The
> article makes reference to resource flattener utilities, but I've spent quite
> some time searching the Palm site, shareware archives, and RoadCoders, and
> I can't find any such utility. If someone has one, I'd be very grateful if
> you could send it to me.
>
> Beyond that, is there someone who knows how the creation of the resource.frk
> directory actually gets done? In my tests, it seems to be very bizarre. For
> example, if I copy a file, myproject.rsrc, to a PC-formated ZIP disk on my
> Mac,
> then use Virtual PC (running Windows 2000) to mount that ZIP disk, there's
> no sign of the resource.frk directory. However, if I take the ZIP to an
> actual PC (also running Windows 2000), lo and behold, there it is. However,
> what it contains is a DOS-format file name, something like MYPROJE~.RSR.
> If I run Constructor and open the myproject.rsrc file, no resources show up.
>
> However, if I manually rename the file in the resource.frk directory to
> myproject.rsrc, and then run Constructor, it shows all the resources.
>
> Unfortunately (as you would probably suspect), if I now take that combination
> back to the Mac (myproject.rsrc with sibling directory resource.frk containing
> myproject.rsrc), it shows as an empty file (the folder doesn't show up, of
> course). On the Mac, it's only if the sibling resource.frk directory contains
> the file named in DOS-format, i.e. MYPROJE~.RSR, that the Mac properly
> recombines the files.
>
> So I'm hoping that someone out there has dealt with this and has a way that
> I can copy the resource file back and forth between the Mac and Windows
> without
> having to do all this manual copying and file renaming at each step.
>
> --Jim Preston
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