[Alephmodular-devel] AM MacOS resources inventory?

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

Is there anyone interested in working on a reorganization of the 
marathon2.resource file? It seems like it should be split into 3 
distinct files:

marathon2.shared.r

All simple resources that are used by AlephModular stored in Rez 
format. For instance, the STR# and nrect resources. Potentially this 
could cover all of the non-pictoral resources including dialog layout, 
CNTL and MENU resources. But I don't know of the tradeoffs/arguments. 
and it still might be that carbon dialogs definitions should be put in 
yet another file so that they follow the proper metrics for Aqua. Then 
again after tweaking for Carbon they should still work properly for 
classic if anyone can actually pot this project back to classic.

marathon2.classic.resource
	
A flat file of a resource fork. All resources used by the classic 
application. This would cover the icons and other stray classic 
resources, such as the cicn, SIZE, BNDL, and 52.4 resources.

marathon2.resource

A flat file of a resource fork. All of the resources that continue to 
make more sense as elements in a classic resource fork. Such as the 
PICT resources for the images used in the preferences dialogs.

I will admit that I do not have a good grasp of where to draw the line 
between what should go in marathon2.shared.r and what should stay in 
marathon2.resource. So anybody interested in helping here better be 
able to explain their decisions before they go and do it. :)

I suppose that telling me to ditch resource files and use nib files is 
a possibility, but you better have a good argument and perhaps be 
willing to do the required work to actually do so. :)

-Jeremy Parons