Resource editor for Rexx ooDialog

Robert Steup

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Mar 26, 2015, 3:56:16 PM3/26/15

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I've been looking for a WYSIWYG resource editor to graphically create .rc files for ooDialog. So far the only good ones seem to be a part of a big expensive IDE.
Any suggestions?

Sahananda

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Mar 26, 2015, 6:37:33 PM3/26/15

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On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 7:56:16 PM UTC, Robert Steup wrote:
> I've been looking for a WYSIWYG resource editor to graphically create .rc files for ooDialog. So far the only good ones seem to be a part of a big expensive IDE.
> Any suggestions?

There is some discussion of this in chapter 4 of Oliver Sims oodGuide.pdf
https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx-docs/4.2.0/oodguide.pdf/download

Robert Steup

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Mar 27, 2015, 9:52:21 AM3/27/15

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On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 3:56:16 PM UTC-4, Robert Steup wrote:
> I've been looking for a WYSIWYG resource editor to graphically create .rc files for ooDialog. So far the only good ones seem to be a part of a big expensive IDE.
> Any suggestions?

I've tried downloading Resedit from several sites. In all cases the .zip file has a broken copy of resedit.exe! Unable to unzip with WinRar!

Jesper K. Brogaard

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Mar 27, 2015, 5:29:44 PM3/27/15

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I've just downloaded ResEdit from http://www.resedit.net/ and can unpack
the 64 bit version with 7-zip without any problems.

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Venlig hilsen / Best regards
Jesper K. Brogaard

(remove upper case letters in my e-mail address)

Swifty

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Apr 4, 2015, 2:21:35 AM4/4/15

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On 27/03/2015 21:29, Jesper K. Brogaard wrote:
> I've just downloaded ResEdit from http://www.resedit.net/ and can unpack
> the 64 bit version with 7-zip without any problems.

Could someone point me to an example of a small rexx program that uses a
correspondingly small .rc file to do something simple?

I've wanted to use this technology for ages, but never had time to get
to grips with it.

Now I have the time, I've lost most of my ability, and certainly most of
my attention spa

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/

Robert Steup

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Apr 9, 2015, 2:08:06 PM4/9/15

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On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 3:56:16 PM UTC-4, Robert Steup wrote:

> I've been looking for a WYSIWYG resource editor to graphically create .rc files for ooDialog. So far the only good ones seem to be a part of a big expensive IDE.
> Any suggestions?

I successfully got resedit.exe with 7zip! Winrar which I've been using for years just reported that the zip file was bad. For years zip files were able to unzipped by many programs. If they are going to invent a new incompatible compression file type they should have called it something other than .zip #$%^&

Swifty; Look in the ooDialog\samples directory. there are many examples of .rc files with accompanying .rex programs. One pain in the neck I had with Windows 8.1 was it would not let modify any of the rexx programs in the C:\Program Files directory even as administrator! :-( I just wanted to insert a TRACE instruction so I could follow what was happening. So I uninstalled ooRexx and then reinstalled it into a C:\ooRexx directory

LesK

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Apr 9, 2015, 4:32:35 PM4/9/15

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You should *never* put your Rexx programs in the ooRexx folder, nor
modify them in place. Instead, create your own folder and put them there and
change the PATH to include that folder. Sometimes the ooRexx installer,
or any installer, might empty the whole directory before installing a
new version and you'll lose your programs.

Like yourself, I often want to see what the program is doing. To
accomplish that I edit it with THE (The Hessling Editor) and use the RUN
macro that Mark H wrote for me. It (effectively) runs the program from
storage, just like I used to do on VM with Xedit. THE also captures the
trace output and shows it to me as an added file in the ring.

--

Les (Change Arabic to Roman to email me)

Robert Steup

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Apr 9, 2015, 6:23:13 PM4/9/15

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I keep all of my rexx scripts on another hard drive, an NAS RAID1. Sometimes I just want to trace one of the rexx oodialog classes to help me figure some of the unhelpful error messages .e.g. "Error Loading xyz.rc" and even if I screw things up it's easy enough to reload rexx.

Some of the problems I encountered are with Windows 9.1 header files. In frustration I wrote a rexx program to index all of the .h files on my system.
It found a total of 7669 of them! Many were "duplicated" many times in separate directories. Many of the "duplicates" had differences! No wonder windows is chaotic!

Swifty

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Apr 11, 2015, 2:18:31 PM4/11/15

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On 09/04/2015 19:08, Robert Steup wrote:
> Swifty; Look in the ooDialog\samples directory.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

tangof41 at gmail dot com

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May 27, 2015, 8:01:19 PM5/27/15

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I've recently been struggling with header files, ResEdit (1.6.3:64) and ooDialog (4.1.1 on Win7:64) . There's a ResEdit option to specify the name of the header file to be something other than 'resource.h' . I exercised this because I kept clobbering header files but didn't want to put every .rc and .h file in a separate directory.

The only version I could get working was %barefile%.h which gives the .h file the same name as the .rc file. I'm fine with this, and ResEdit dutifully inserts an "#include rcfile.h" statement in the dialog. However it seems that ooDialog doesn't honor the include statement; at least I have to add self~constDIR[IDD_DIALOGn]=10m statements to my program to have them run without error messages (non-numeric identifier not numeric ... or some other such confusing thing) self~loadItem statement work without error messages. Has anyone else has problems like this? Have a better solution?