On Apr 4, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Chris Espinosa wrote:
On Apr 4, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Scott Squires wrote:
Are there any recommended utilities/tools for dealing with old resources?
(.rsrc primarily, some old ppobs)
(converting to data forks, splitting out, extracting picts, etc)
The best thing to do is to /Developer/Tools/DeRez them into .r files (using the -useDF flag if they're data-fork resources), then use the .r files in your Xcode project, either in the main ResourceManager Resources build (for one resource file in the bundle) or in a separate Resource Manager target (if you want to build separate resource files that you find and load manually).
I use .r files as well. The other benefit of going this way is that you can specify, resource IDs in a shared .h file so that if you have to change something, everything always rebuilds correctly.
As for playing with resource files themselves, you could also use Rezilla. It's still a work in progress, but it will let you get at resources, save resource files out as .r files and, as I recall, also save resource fork based resource files out to data fork based ones.
steve
