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I double-clicked on the .rsrc file, since I still have a working resource editor (Resorcerer) on my OS X Mac. No dice; it’s in the ancient MPW “Rez” format that
by DLWormwood 16y ago
I double-clicked on the .rsrc file, since I still have a working resource editor (Resorcerer) on my OS X Mac. No dice; it’s in the ancient MPW “Rez” format that acted as the original way to store resource information for development and source control before being compiled into the classic Mac dual-forked file format. I kind of wish I kept my CodeWarrior discs handy; they still had a Rez compiler that worked under earlier releases of OS X.
Interesting that they didn’t use the “ellipsis” character in the menus, preferring to hardcode the three periods. The Human Interface Guidelines were clear to use the single character (which does look different enough in the Chicago font), and these kinds of typographic details (via the MacRoman character set) were key selling points for the Mac early on.
- lordgilman 16y agoThere's a command line Rez compiler shipped with Xcode. The name is case-sensitive.
- DLWormwood 16y agoI never thought to look in OS X’s command line only toolbox for that... but it’s just as well. The Xcode version of Rez can’t cope with way this format is written. Even re-saving the file as MacRoman/CR-delimited didn’t help much; the file is using commenting and identifiers unknown to a “modern” Rez file parser. It’s probably written in a dialect that only the Lisa Workshop or MPW can read.
- microtherion 16y agoThat can't be right; Rez was a compiler that took plain text symbolic input. Most likely the .rsrc file is just an actual resource fork, encoded maybe in MacBinary format.