setting or HACKING creator codes in OS X

[Brian Thomas]

Hi, I've been working on a big project called If Monks had Macs 
forever. I've been going back & forth between Revolution & MetaCard 
because I had been working with Scott Raney and Tuviah on getting 
special fixes to the MetaCard engines for a bunch of QuickTime 
related issues. Thankfully they are all incorporated in Revolution 
2.0. So I've begun reading this list, digging into MetaCard and 
trying to use the Distribution Builder. I have had some real 
difficulty getting the builder to apply the creator codes and icons 
in OS X as I would like. I put the creator code in the signature box 
for OS X (as well as the creator signature box for the OS 9) but it 
doesn't apply.

I'm getting really frustrated.


If there is a past thread or a guide to using it that would be nice. 
But I was hoping someone could suggest a sort of Gordian Knot 
solution. Like Mathewson's for dealing with the frustration of the 
mis-sized distribution or stand-alone builder box (just go ahead and 
fix it in MetaCard (I made it re-sizeable).

I thought I could just hack the files with an OS X version of 
Resedit. However, everything I could find that didn't cost $256 only 
works on files, not applications. I didn't try the thing that costs 
$256.

Is there a free or cheap way to change the creator and/or type codes in OS X ?



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Brian

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