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As an early Macintosh tool, ResEdit's UI was intuitive enough for non-programmers to pick it up and apply superficial changes to the images, sounds, UI layouts,
by rezmason 6y ago
As an early Macintosh tool, ResEdit's UI was intuitive enough for non-programmers to pick it up and apply superficial changes to the images, sounds, UI layouts, strings and level save files of the Mac apps of their time.
Nowadays I can't even swap out the icon file of a Mac app without it running aground on the notarization stuff in modern versions of the OS. The age of ResEdit is as dead as a dogcow.
- jfk13 6y ago> as dead as a dogcow Thank you for the simile -- so much more apt than a dodo, in this case!
- JKCalhoun 6y agoAnd before I found ResEdit the software package I used came with a tool called "RMaker". You fed it a .r text file with a very terse format for describing the various resources and it generated the resource (.rsrc) file. I even edited 'icon' resources in .r files ... maybe some kind of array of hex values? Christ, that was tedious. And then I found ResEdit.... (At least in my foggy memory that is how I remember things.)
- mwcremer 6y agoTedious indeed, but for a long time it was the only game in town. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=RMaker.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
- easton 6y agoI remember in older versions of OS X how cool it was you could just get info an app, drag an icon on top, and it would have a new icon. Guess that had to go at some point :/
- pcr910303 6y agoWell, that still works! (Just confirmed it in Big Sur.)
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoDid you do the floppy-disk-full-of-icons thing in elementary school too? I was envious of my friends who had collected so many Calvin & Hobbes and Simpsons icons. It's like punk rockers wearing badges, but nerdier.