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- In the modifications file with Yerk, I had a rather obscure reference
- to the install procedure. Here is a rewritten paragraph.
-
- Install now works well. You have to think about how the application is
- going to work as opposed to how it worked as a development
- environment. Eliminate all opennr calls (I patch the old ones [to
- null]), use menus in resources (see the folder supplied with Yerk
- sources ‘menus in resource’, don't read in a path file, and get rid of
- some of the unnecessary words in your development startup word. Then
- run the install module, setting the various words appropriately.
- Certain modules will load as Code resources, and you may delete those
- you don't need with ResEdit. Add any other resources you need from
- the development resource files, and you are ready to go.
-
- The key is to think of how a real application will work as opposed to
- the development document.
-
- Taking the original startup word, yerk, from the frontend source (with
- line numbers):
-
- \ system startup word
- 1 : yerk
- 2 sysInit \ Initialize nucleus objects - fFcb, fEvent, fpRect, fWind
- 3 " fpInit" sFind IF drop cfa execute THEN \ Initialize FP system
- 4 0 ?event drop abs: fWind call BeginUpdate
- 5 getVrect: fWind 14 + put: tempRect update: tempRect
- 6 abs: fWind call EndUpdate
- 7 initNewWindow: fwind show: fwind
- 8 <[ 2 ]> 'cfas enfW disfW setAct: fWind \ fWind activate activities
- 9 OpenNR
- 10 new: imageName new: parmStr
- 11 nPath
- 12 nMenu \ get Yerk menu bar
- 13 initProcs \ loads a5,a3 into all :proc words
- 14 myDoc 2dup put: imageName title: fWind \ fWind title bar
- 15 ?yerkFlgs release ;
- 16
- 17 'c yerk -> objInit
-
-
- Here are the changes I would make:
-
- 1. eliminate line 2, since sysinit has already done its job and the application will
- store the nucleus as it is.
-
- 2. if you use floating point, substitue line 3 with "fpInit"..just execute it, since
- you know it's there.
-
- 3. Drop the update stuff in lines 4-6 (doesn't hurt to leave them in, just unecessary)
-
- 4. eliminate lines 7-8 for the same reason as point 1.
-
- 5. Really eliminate line 9, since your resource file is now the resource fork
- of the application. If your program has references to openNr, or your own
- word to open your development resource file, patch them as:
- patch openNr null
- path MyRsrcOpen null
- I use resedit to copy all resources I need in an application to the rsrc fork.
- This can mean the STR rsrcs from Yerk.rsrc also.
-
- 6. Eliminate line 11, unless you want to include the npath.txt file in the yerk folder
- and have the yerk folder around..If you distribute the application, you don't
- want to do this. In fact, a path file for an application is unnecessary. The
- user will always use the std file dialogs.
-
- 7. Redefine 'nmenu' in line 12 to read menus from your application's resources.
- For an application, you should include your menues as rsrcs. (See the example
- in the folder ‘menus in resource’). However, to test the install, you could
- leave 'nmenu' alone as long as the new application resides in the yerk folder.
-
- 8. eliminate line 14 since there is no longer a document. The name of
- the fwind is in the rsrc file.
-
- So, the resultant startup word should look like:
-
-
- \ system startup word
- 1 : yerk
- 2
- 3 fpInit
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10 new: imageName new: parmStr
- 11
- 12 myMenuWord \ get your menu bar
- 13 initProcs \ loads a5,a3 into all :proc words
- 14
- 15 ?yerkFlgs release ;
- 16
- 17 'c yerk -> objInit
-
-
- -----------------------
-
- The install module is modified so that you may select those modules
- you want installed within your application. You may want some standard
- Yerk ones, your own, or none at all.
-
-
-