Let the Pain Begin!

It's time for manual editing!  Get the Preparation H restocked, put on the wrist straps, load up several coffee filters in advance, etc!  Here we go!

You’ll do the editing in your favorite code editor. I have developed several ways of making the manual editing go faster and easier.

Once you have translated the file, quit CTools™ and open the new .p.c file in your code editor.  Two things that will help here , tremendously, is Think C with CMaster™ and QuicKeys™ (as mentioned).  Without these two things (or comparable utilities, if that's possible) the editing of CTools™ Pascal to C output can and will be a drudgery.  But, still, not as bad as a direct translation of a Pascal file (although I’ve got that down to a science, too)!

In addition to these two EXCELLENT utilities, adding in a “Command-equivalent” key for your “Replace All” menu item is essential!  I use the asterisk, because it’s right next to the mouse, on the numeric keypad.  You do NOT want to be making a mouse trip to the menu bar for the Replace All function!  You are going to be using it 100s of times in the coming task!

Use ResEdit or Commander, or whatever, but get a unique Command/equivalent modifier key for this menu item. (Make sure you use a unique key.)