Yes, we use derez for the Windows app (still running in MS DOS!) It flattens resources, but doesn't make them easy to parse or maintain.
Casey McDermott TurtleSoft.com On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:02 AM Glenn L. Austin <gl...@austinsoft.com> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev < > cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > > >>>>> Convert resources from ResEdit > >>> DUDE. This is what, 20 years overdue? > > > > Dude. Why would we change them before it was necessary? Don't fix it if > > it ain't broke. There were better things to work on in the past 20 > years. > > > > We wrote code to go through each type of resource and convert them to > XML. > > Then that turned out to be a huge PITA to maintain, so we revised it to > tab > > text. Easy to revise in Excel and 10x faster to load. > > > > My question is, why on earth didn't Apple provide a conversion tool like > > that? It would have saved thousands of developers from having to write > > their own resource translators or do it by hand. > > > > Casey McDermott > > TurtleSoft.com > > They did. It's called derez. It's still available on Catalina. > > -- > Glenn L. Austin, Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <>< > <http://www.austinsoft.com> > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
