>tedd wrote: > >>Okay, please excuse my ignorance, I followed you up to this point, but-- >> >>>Minimal plst 0 >>>-------------- >>>This property-list text does one thing only: it tells the system >>>to look for an icns 128 resource as the app's icon. Note that the >>>text has exactly 8 lines; if the 2nd line gets irreversibly split >>>by email, paste the whole thing into a text editor and remove the >>>carriage return or line feed or whatever. >>> >>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >>><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" >>>"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> >>><plist version="1.0"> >>><dict> >>> <key>CFBundleIconFile</key> >>> <string>128</string> >>></dict> >>></plist> >> >>-- what do we do with this? Do we place it in our code, or what? >>I'm unclear. It looks like the new DOCTYPE declaration we use for >>web pages to conform to the new w3c standards. > > >It's a replacement for the content of the plst resource that FB4 >puts in a Carbon OS X application. I think you will get up to speed >most easily if you do this little exercise first. > >Familiarization Exercise on plst resource >----------------------------------------- > >Build this FB4 program as a Carbon app: > >window 1 >do >HandleEvents >until 0 > >and open the app in ResEdit. > >Alternatively, use ResEdit to open an app in the Great FB Apps >folder on the FB4 CD (Yet Another Mandelbrot Program, Compositor, or >The Window Maker). > >Then, still in ResEdit, open the plst 0 resource, > click in the right (text) pane, > Select All, > Copy. > >In any text-editor: > Paste > Stare with amazement at the contents > >Robert P. Oh that. Why didn't you say so? But seriously, thanks. I think I see now that the code I questioned above is simply the text (ASCII) that is contained in the plst resource within the application's resource file -- is that it? It's like the hex dump of it. I wonder why it looks so much like the new css doctype statement? There must be some reason why they are so similar. Also, while I don't think the critter exists, does anyone have a ResEdit that runs under Mac OS-X? I really hate going back to nine. "Once you've had ten, you don't go back again." -- hey, I just made that up. :-) I have the new Resorcerer for OS-X, but I don't like it as well as ResEdit. tedd -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://sperling.com/