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- From: nimouat@napier.waterloo.edu (Nikos Mouat)
- Subject: Re: "ObHack" complaint
- Message-ID: <Bs28qo.4ED@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Sender: news@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Jul25.124937.17698@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Distribution: alt
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:30:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.124937.17698@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes
- >
- >
- > Btw, there's some cool hacking things you can do on a mac
- > in general with "ResEdit", since so many mac applications use a standard
- > structure for all the windows and dialogues and things so you can change them
- > easily, interchange "yes" and "no" and stuff, or in the case of "StuffIt", an
- > archive making program (like tar, or like arc), changing the screen for setting
- > a password on the archive to an explanation that using a password is silly
- > because it doesn't do encryption, but it is a big pain in the ass and can't be
- > removed, so please press "cancel" now.
- >
-
- White-water Resource toolkit for windows is the same. Resource toolkits are fun,
- but there is very little you can do to change a program with it. Sure you can
- change bit maps, icons, dialogue boxes and all that shit but you can't change any
- code. One thing you can do that is neet in Windows is you can add icons to
- dialogue boxes (well, it's like adding small bitmaps, like the little 'stop' or
- question mark icons that are on some dialogue boxes).
- I actually did manage to change some code using a resource editor once. I don't know
- how, and I can't do it again (I wish I could, because I changed the one thing I
- didn't like about the program)... The program is winmine, a silly little game
- for windows 3.1, you have to mark mines in a minefield, if you double mark a mine
- it marks it with a question mark. Well somehow, I got rid of the question mark
- phase of the marking, so you mark.. un-mark etc.
-
- Cheers, Nikos
-