"Terry Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Is there an easy way to share the resource files used in Constructor
so
> multiple people can be updating them while working on different forms?
> Looks live Version Control System only locks it when checked out. How
do we
> merge our changes? Other than manually, of course, which is labor
> intensive, a scheduling nightmare, and error prone (other than that,
manual
> merging works fine).
>
> I've considered converting to PilRC, which is text based and would
therefore
> permit a "diff" function to work. But, I haven't found an option in
> Constructor to output a file that PilRC can read, so I can do the
"diff",
> then merge them and import back into Constructor for the WYSIWYG
> functionality. Any cool conversion toolettes out there anywhere?
You can also use .r format, the input to Rez. To convert a .rsrc file
to .r format
1) Go to the File Mappings pref panel and hit Factory Settings to make
sure that file mappings are correct.
2) Go to the line for "RSRC" type files, select the Rez compiler, hit
Change, then hit Apply.
3) In the Rez pref panel, set the prefix file to "UIResDefs.r".
3) Now, in the project window, you can disassemble .rsrc files, getting
a textual .r form.
In general, I've found PilRC's text format to work better than Rez --
for documentation on the Rez format, you'll need to poke around Apple's
developer site, since this tool was originally deployed to describe Mac
resources. The structure descriptions in "UIResDefs.r" are also very
useful.
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