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 Sub : Resource expert help needed
From : RAY WEISLING (#268)
Date : 03/25/89 08:28:44 PM

I bought the Arabic Macintosh System Software v1.1 from APDA and have
been struggling with moving parts of it over to my regular system. As it
stands it is a complete localized System for use in Arab-speaking
countries, with all menus, dialogs and alerts in Arabic, using one of
several new Arabic fonts. It is interesting to type characters, because
the linking of this script is done dynamically, and the shapes change to
connect with the next--this requires a special font and special script
manager resource code. As I do not yet speak Arabic (but wish to use
this as a learning tool) this is a bit more than I desire. Also, this
version appears to be based on System 3.2 and Finder 5.3, and I would
like to have it on System 6.0.2 (to use with Multifinder).

So I set about to see what I could move over to my 6.0.2 System
(actually to a copy). I have done some comparisons between these two
systems (and with a copy of 4.0/5.4, which is the closest I can come
here at home with a US system). There are numerous resources that are
named "Arabic" that are obvious, and these were moved. There is one
script icon, a crescent moon, that shows up on the right menu bar to
tell you which script is active; this I moved also.

The first shot at running with my 6.0.2 Arabic system were pretty good.
The one strange thing was that I had no Chicago font--all menus had what
looked like Geneva 12. I had originally moved the Arabic fonts with
Font/DA Mover, and upon further browsing with ResEdit I saw that my
Arabic fonts were in FOND but were missing from FONT. Strange. I tried
again with Font/DA Mover, this time to a new file; same thing. Hmmm. I
tried this move with an old Fontastic (v2.5) and this time it seemed
that they moved OK. After this, and possibly some other careless dinking
around in my target 6.0.2-Arabic version, and it stopped working for me.
The script manager switching was gone, the script icon didn't show up,
etc.

Now I am frustrated, after all this work. The documentation supplied was
minimal in terms of getting this moved over to newer systems. Apple
should know that they always update the system and that people always
like to run with the improvements in capability (and hopefully old bugs
removed with fewer new bugs, right?). Since the System has no CODE
resources, where is the code that might be different between these
systems?

Does anyone have any suggestions? Any experience with international
resources or script manager out there? I'd be mighty grateful for any
suggestions on what to do or where to go for assistance.
Any takers? Thanks in advance.


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