Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: resource files Message-ID: <463@mks.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 22:07:48 GMT References: <1609@water.waterloo.edu> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 19 In article <1609@water.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes: > ... resource files use a clever encoding scheme that compresses an > already small quantity of information. This strikes me as ludicrous, > since it seems that every file takes a minimum of 1K anyway. Why not > store the desired information in "cleartext", perhaps even with a few > keywords, and allow the user use an editor to create and/or modify the > input data file? But, in many cases, these resource files are created with a resource editor, and the use has no control over the internal format. Although I haven't needed to create one, I believe there is a standard way to lay out a GEM resource file. It contains a tree structure describing the GEM data the program will used, such as dialogue boxes, menus, etc. -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043