In article <85361@palm-dev-forum>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > Just found a problem I thought I'd pass on. I've been using a > DOS batch file to copy projects around for other people to work > on. Recently someone grabbed one of these projects from my > archive area and the resource files were empty. > > Investigation reveals that the CW8 app wizard seems to hide the > resource.frk folder and that this can, in some cases, result in it > not being copied. If you're backing up like this I'd check your > backups. > > I'm not sure if the wizard deliberately hides this folder or if it's a > side-effect of my environment. I'll leave the question of whether > it _should_ hide a critical portion of the project for the office > water-cooler.
Actually, the wizard itself isn't doing this, but it is a side effect of how the MacOS Merge linker produces Mac OS format resource files on the PC. I'd never noticed this, since one of the first things I do when I touch a PC is tell Windows Explorer to show me file extensions, system files, and hidden files -- I've never been one to let the OS hide things from me. If you look at the actual process the wizard uses, its not generating a Mac OS resource file directly. We actually generate a Rez script, then compile that into a .rsrc file using a target which is deleted after the compilation is complete. This let us just deal with text-based templates when producing the wizards, which is much, much better than making binary templates for lots of easily understood reasons. I'll file a bug report on the Mac OS Merge linker, and see if we can fix this. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. -- Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead Get help at http://palmoswerks.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
