The Color Pixel editors now restore a dragged selection to its original position when you change to another image in the family that's the same size. This makes it easier to drag a selection in all the family icons of the same size.
The Dialog Editor now supports a variety of Align item commands. The old Align to Crosshair command in the item menu now supports a sub-menu for the different options (including the old one). Most of these are similar to ResEdit’s Alignment menu. Align to Crosshair currently stretches items by default, moving them if the Shift key constrains. The Align with Top/Left/Bottom/Right Edges commands move the items by default, and stretch them if the Shift key is down.
In addition, the Align to Text Ends command vertically aligns a selection of 2 or more text items using the points two pixels past the end of each text string. All selected items are aligned to the right (or left) edge of the selection’s bounding box, depending on whether the style of the text is a left-to-right (right-to-left) font. Holding the Option key down flips the right-to-left sense. If you’ve ever spent too much time trying to get Static text items, all ending in colons, to align vertically, you should like this command.
When editing a dialog with the Dialog Editor, the TAB key now cycles forward by item number through all items in the item list, selecting each one in sequence, including any hidden items.
The View Menu now includes the names of any hidden but still open File Windows in its list of window titles. This lets you selectively unhide individual File Windows.
The View Menu now marks the frontmost window name with a bullet (•). You know, like Billboard Magazine :).
The Preferences... dialog, General Preferences section, now lets you turn off accumulation in the <Resource Scrap> file. When this option is set, the <Resource Scrap> file behaves more like the standard Mac clipboard, that is, it is cleared just before any Copy or Cut from another File Window. If you undo a Cut or Clear, the old resources in the <Resource Scrap> are returned. This means that to reclaim the memory for a large amount of data in the <Resource Scrap> file, you have to go and do something else undo-able first.
The Speech Templates file now has filtered templates for the ‘rule’ and ‘glob’ Speech Manager resources, as well as the previous template for the ‘dict’ resource.
Compare Two Files now operates on the front two windows, and is enabled if 2 or more files are open. Previously, it was enabled only if exactly two files were open.
The Color Icon (‘cicn’) and Pattern (‘ppat’) Editors now create new color icons and patterns with dimensions the same as the last one created or brought to the front.
The Color Icon (‘cicn’), Pattern (‘ppat’), and Cursor (‘crsr’) Editors used to be hardwired to default for new color resources to 4-bits/pixel. There is a new preference that lets you set this to 8-bits/pixel. The preference is independent for each of the three types of color resource.
1.2.1 --> 1.2.4 Bug Fixes
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Growing a 'cicn' or a 'ppat' resource with the Scale Image option is now fixed so as not to cause a bad heap and crash.
Opening a 'cicn' with a missing 1-bit image now initializes the internal 1-bit image to something more reasonable than garbage.
The missing resource reference check in the Dialog Editor now distinguishes between skipping the rest of the check and canceling.
Fixed a long-standing intermittent bug in the Data Editor when copying and pasting repeated list items that include skip offsets or sizeof fields (like help message records).
The preprocessor in the script interpreter now ignores most directives it doesn’t recognize or support.
Fixed a bug in the 'PICT' template filter that was misparsing the BitsRect/BitsRgn opcodes in version 2 picts when they were only BitMaps. Apple’s PICT.r file is wrong on this.
Resource files are now checked to see if they are already open as part of your runtime environment. If they are, they are no longer closed when you think you've closed them. In addition, already open files now have the proper resource map walked during the initial Resorcerer scan. This means that you can now open and edit a System 7.1 Font folder file and have things work pretty much as expected. However, there is no guarantee here. If you are having problems editing a 7.1 font file in the Fonts folder, make a copy, drag it out of the folder, and then edit it.
Current (that is, always open) System Enabler files are now strictly off-limits. Older versions of Resorcerer open them incorrectly; 1.2.4 now forces you to make a copy, which you should be able to edit or browse normally (no guarentees, here). The undocumented hacking that the Resource Manager has suffered to implement enablers under 7.1 makes the support of direct editing of open enablers very unpleasant for third-parties.
Fixed a bug having to do with the non-opening of locked files in the Finder.
