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marshall@sdd.hp.com (Marshall Clow) writes:
I Had the same problems described below.  I had a file named XYZ.r and
a file named XYZ.rsrc.  The two contained completely different stuff.
Every once in a while everything in my XYZ.rsrc file would disappear.
I discovered that when MABuild was rezzing my XYZ.r file, it rezzed it
into a file called XYZ.rsrc, overwriting the resources I already had
in that file.  It then deleted the rezzed resources, leaving me with
an empty XYZ.rsrc file and a headache.

My solution was to give my XYZ.rsrc file a different name.

-J


>In article <1993Jan20.202603.1138@udel.edu>, gray@tinman.asel.udel.edu
>(John Gray) wrote:
>> 
>> Hello fellow netters:
>> 
>> MacApp makefiles have a variable in them called OtherRsrcFiles which 
>> I understand is to list other Resource files that the app needs.
>> So I thought the rsrc file created by ViewEdit would be an example of
>> a file that should be listed there (ObjectMaster seems to think so too 
>> because it lists the ViewEdit file under the variable when I have it 
>> generate a makefile as well).  At any rate with the ViewEdit file 
>> listed there, when the make gets to point of rezzing the thing it 
>> seems truncate the ViewEdit file to zero bytes (good thing I am 
>> religious about backups).  Anybody know whats going on here.  It 
>> doesn't seem to do it all the time, but very often.
>> 

>I also had this problem, and this is my "solution". I was building an
>app called "XXY", and my resource file was named "XXY.rsrc". Every time
>I did a complete build (from scratch) as well as every now and then
>(i.e, no apparent pattern), my XXY.rsrc file became 0 bytes long. I changed
>it's name to "XXY Views.rsrc", changed the makefile, and I have had no
>further problems (so far).

>What I suspect is that somewhere, MABuild is making a temp file named
>"{AppName}.rsrc".

>Of course, I could be just blowing smoke, and my success could just be
>apparent. I don't know that this is true, I've just not had the time to
>go and check what MABuild is doing. So far, however, it's worked for me.

>Marshall Clow
>San Diego Printer Division      Hewlett Packard
>Internet: marshall@sdd.hp.com   AppleLink: HP.Marshall    AOL: MClow