ResEdit version 2.1.3.

ResEdit is a developer tool application for the classic Apple Macintosh, used to create and edit resources directly in the Mac's resource fork architecture. It is an alternative to tools such as the resource compiler Rez, and for the average user is generally easier to use, because it uses a graphical user interface. Download high resolution version (832x624, 78 KB)Screenshot of ResEdit version 2. ... Download high resolution version (832x624, 78 KB)Screenshot of ResEdit version 2. ... Application has the following meanings: In general, an application is using something abstract for a more concrete use. ... Mac OS X v10. ... The resource fork is a construct of the Mac OS operating system (and implemented in all of the filesystems used on the Macintosh, MFS, HFS and HFS Plus), used to store structured data in a file, alongside and tightly bound to unstructured data within the data fork. ... A diagram of the operation of an ideal compiler. ... An example of graphical user interface in Mac OS X A graphical user interface (or GUI, pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ...

Resources on the Mac can be of many different types, and in fact any arbitrary data can be turned into a resource. While the system defines many standard formats for particular kinds of resources (e.g. an icon, or a window template), programmers are also free to define their own. ResEdit includes support for editing many of the standard types and for creating arbitrary resources with any structure a programmer might dream up.

ResEdit was one of the earliest examples of a GUI layout tool, an essential component for rapid application development. For example, the Mac OS defines a standard resource called a dialog template and a dialog items list (resource types 'DLOG' and 'DITL' respectively). In ResEdit, it is possible to simply create these types and add GUI elements to them in an almost WYSIWYG fashion, so that you can design a user interface directly as it will appear to the end user of your application. Later, the application code can create a functional dialog box using the stored resource data which will match the appearance you laid out in ResEdit. While hardly a revolutionary concept today, when ResEdit first appeared in the mid 1980s, this was a considerable innovation. ResEdit includes standard editors for windows templates ('WIND'), menus ('MENU'), dialog boxes, controls ('CNTL'), colour palettes ('clut' and 'pltt'), icons ('ICON', 'cicn', 'ICN#'), and various other standard types. Rapid application development (RAD), is a software programming technique that allows quick development of software applications. ... Original 1984 Mac OS desktop Current 2005 Mac OS X desktop Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer’s name for the first operating systems for Macintosh computers. ... WYSIWYG (pronounced wizzy-wig or wuzzy-wig) is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and is used in computing to describe a seamlessness between the appearance of edited content and final product. ... Dialog boxes are special windows which are used by computer programs or by the operating system to display information to the user, or to get a response if needed. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

One of ResEdit's most powerful features (which first appeared with ResEdit version 2.0), is the ability to define arbitrary data structures as resources using a simple template building feature. Here, the programmer simply adds elemental data types to a list to define a template (itself stored as a resource of type 'TMPL'). This template allows ResEdit to build a GUI editor on the fly that will allow entry of data and package it into the structure defined in the template. It is then a simple matter for a programmer to define a matching data structure in a chosen programming language, such as C, load the resource in a standard manner and access the data as the defined C type. ResEdit includes a number of predefined templates for many standard OS resources that do not require a graphical editor.

ResEdit is no longer available as an application for Mac OS X, as other tools have largely superseded it. A similar tool available from a third-party developer is Resorcerer, and there is an open source Mac OS X-native resource editor called ResKnife. ResEdit will run in the Classic compatibility mode of OS X. Apple discourages the use of resource forks in Mac OS X applications being developed today. Mac OS X is the latest version of the Mac OS, the operating system software for Macintosh computers. ... Mac OS X is the latest version of the Mac OS, the operating system software for Macintosh computers. ...