37thResEx is distributed as SHAREWARE: if you use it you should pay the author.
You may register 37thResEx by sending US $10 CASH (or an equivalent sum with your local currency) to the author at the address above. A Registration Form is available inside 37thResEx 1.2.0.
Please, please, no checks: to cash them I must pay the bank more than $15!!!!!
These are some things you can send me instead of the money:
√...original software,
√...shareware software (but only if you're the author),
√...Macintosh-related magazines subscription,
√...CD-ROMs,
√...piece of new or used hardware.
√...anything you've created.
√...macrobiotic food: Tamari, Tekka, Umeboshi, Kombu, Wakame, Kuzu, Miso, etc.
If you can't afford any of the above send me a postcard, a letter or what you think could be right.
Special offers:
All registered users of any my other shareware program may register one copy of 37thResEx 1.2.0 at the special price of US $5.
All registered users of 37thResEx 1.1.x until December 25, 1995 are automatically registered users of 37thResEx 1.2.0.
37thResEx 1.2.0 can also be included, without my previous permission, without changes and with this "Read Me", in all CD-ROM or disk shareware collections and in all CD-ROM or Disk magazines (anyway an e-mail or a notice will be welcome, as well as a copy of the magazine or media :-).
37thResEx 1.2.0 may not be included in a commercial package without my permission.
• How to use.
37thResEx 1.2.0 is an application for extracting resources from files. It has two modes:
√...Mode 1: Drag&Drop (automatic extraction).
After dragging on one or more files, a window will notify if resources of type 'snd ', 'TEXT', 'XCMD','XFCN','PICT', 'ppat', 'ICON' and icon family ('ICN#','ics#','icl4' etc.) exist:
You may quit or continue to analyze more dragged files. Instead, if you check a "resource check box", then the "Cancel" button changes its name to "Extract", so you can extract the resources you want.
37thResEx 1.2.0, in Drag&Drop mode, extracts all the resources of selected types. You can move the extracted resources into an existing file (selecting "Add to file") or in a new one. With "Add to file" option checked, 37thResEx 1.2.0 creates the "unique ID" automatically.
Files created by 37thResEx 1.2.0 are named: "[resType]ID[ID]" and saved in a new folder named: "37th[resType].ƒ->[source name]". If a folder with the same name already exists (?!) 37thResEx 1.2.0 saves the files outside that folder, and if files with the same name already exist outside that folder (?!?!) 37thResEx 1.2.0 overwrites them (at last!!).
All created files have type 'rsrc' and creator 'RSED', except files containing 'snd ' resources, which have type "sfil" ad creator "movr" (to play them by double-clicking...) and files containing 'TEXT' resources which have type 'TEXT" ad creator "ttxt" (to open them by a Text Editor...)
All the resources in the new files maintain original ID and name, except icon families (because these files, created by 37thResEx 1.2.0, will show such icon on the desktop, so you can copy/cut the icon from 'Get Info' window).
When 37thResEx 1.2.0, in scanning files, finds resources of type 'TEXT', it looks also for related 'styl' resources. In case of icon families, first searches a resource of type 'ICN#', and then related ones...
37thResEx 1.2.0, in Drag&Drop mode, works fine and fast in background...
Note: while 37thResEx 1.2.0, in Drag&Drop mode, is the foreground application, you can press escape or command-period to exit during its performance. Instead if 37thResEx 1.2.0 is the background application you can use only escape key to stop its job.
When 37thResEx 1.2.0, in Drag&Drop mode, completes the extraction from a file, if it's in background, and if another file is queueing, then 37thResEx 1.2.0 attempts to call back your attention, by a simple notification procedure. If you do nothing or are working with another application, after a brief waiting time (about 30 seconds), it stops the notification procedure and, simply, waits you.
√...Mode 2: Application (custom extraction).
After launching 37thResEx 1.2.0 by double clicking its icon, you can choose a file by button or menu item "File to scan". The name of the file will show in the main window while, in menu "Resource type", all its resources will show. From this menu you can select a resource type: this will be shown in the "Resource type" field of the main window. The menu "Resource ID" will show the ID numbers of all existing resources of chosen type, and selecting an ID it will show in the main window, with the resource name. Now you can extract the resource (!). If you move the extracted resource in a new file, you can assign type & creator to the file itself, while if you add it to an existing file, the "Unique ID" option is available.
Be careful:
If "unique ID" is not checked and, in the destination file, a resource of same type with same ID exists, the file will be damaged.
37thResEx 1.2.0 copies all resource attributes except 'Protect', because to copy it would damage the destination file. 37thResEx 1.2.0 sets all related resource attributes as main.
37thResEx 1.2.0 supports the dragging of multiple files. It requires at least System 7 to run.
• Thanks for support, help and suggestion to:
√...Carla Bidone.
√..Alessandro Giolitti
√...Lucilla Guendalina Moliterno.
√...Alessandro Levi Montalcini.
√... Fabrizio Oddone.
√...Jim Stout for his beautiful "Jim's CDEF".
• Author's note:
My software development group is made up by: me :-/
On the other hand, my beta-tester group is made up by: me :-(
This means that if you find a bug, both developer and beta-tester groups would greatly appreciate your reporting ;-)
And don't forget to register your copy of 37thResEx 1.2.0. Remember that a shareware author should be supported. If you don’t pay for shareware software today, you will pay much more tomorrow for exactly the same features (but enclosed in a 'nice' commercial box, with a 'friendly' copy protection and an 'attractive' serial number...).
• Version history:
1.2.0 Added the ability to save 'TEXT' resources in text files. Added, in Drag&Drop mode, the ability to extract 'ppat' resources. Added the escape key tracking. Added the ability to work in background when 37thResEx is launched by Drag&Drop. Recompiled with custom libraries and improved any routine. Completely rewritten the "extracting window" routine. All modal dialogs are now movable. Immediate request for destination file when the option is checked. Removed the "cheap" custom get/save file dialogs. Very improved the job speed. Added the ability to use menus while 37thResEx, in Drag&Drop mode, is the foreground application. Added registration form. Improved documentation. E-mail address updated. Added tri-dimensional buttons. Added notification procedure. Minor changes.
1.1.1 Some bug fixed.
1.1.0 Some bug fixed. Improved memory management.
1.0.0 First release
• Disclaimer.
37thResEx shouldn't cause any damage, but you use it at your own risk. As an independent software developer, I can make no warranties whatsoever on it.
