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- From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.1.1 and window placement? HELP!!
- Keywords: help resedit window position
- Message-ID: <alen.725697045@crash.cts.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 06:30:45 GMT
- References: <alen.725563354@crash.cts.com> <75984@apple.apple.COM>
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
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- In <75984@apple.apple.COM> ira@Apple.COM (Ira Ruben) writes:
-
- >alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) writes:
-
- >>Well here we go again...I have ResEdit 2.1.1 on a Mac SE/30 8/200
- >>running System 7.1, many inits (oops extensions).
-
- >>I have the res templates for disassembly installed (the ones that
- >>give a "modules" menu). Not sure where I got them from...I think it may
- >>have been from apple.com or sumex. I used to have a full page display. Now
- >>I have a shorter display. When I had the FPD I used to use it to display
- >>the "code disasembly" window full page. Now I'm back on a shorter display
- >>and my "code disasembly" window falls off the bottom of the screen. There
- >>is no zoom box on these windows so I cannot get them back up.
-
- >>I use 2 screens, I put the 9" above the now-shorter new display and moved the
- >>code disasembly window up (till I could get at the size controls). Trouble
- >>is, after quitting ResEdit, the new window size/position was not saved.
- >>I tried to get into "preferences" but that crashes my mac.
-
- >>Any ideas? I may have to go back to an unmodified ResEdit and start over!!
-
- >I am not sure where you got the CODE editor and what version it is (probably
- >2.4 from a developer CD or 2.9 from an ETO), and it's been a while since
- >I looked into things, but I believe if you can get into ResEdit, open the
- >ResEdit Preferences file in the Preferences folder (in the System Folder),
- >then delete the 'ilrP' resource. That's where the CODE editor remembers its
- >prefs. It will revert to its default settings and recreate the ilrP
- >resource.
-
- >The window position "logic" has changed a number of times (certainly after
- >2.4) and it tries to be "intelligent" about moving its prefs among systems
- >with different monitor configurations (or vice versa). Maybe one of these
- >versions will get it right :-). At any rate, the newest version is 2.12 and
- >will appear on the next ETO. By the way there are no further versions planned.
- >2.12 was just "sitting on the shelf" (since last March) so I decided to let
- >it out on the next ETO.
-
- >Ira Ruben
- >Apple Computer, Inc.
-
-
- Thanks Ira, resediting the resedit preference file worked. Will version
- 2.12 be on apple.com? I don't get developer CDs (and don't have a CD
- device!!). However the mac makes a GREAT ftp internet host (using slip).
-
- --alen ... trying to turn a Sparc into a Flame
- alen@crash.cts.com
-