Rezonator v.1.0.a1 Documentation
by Narayan Sainaney
13 December 1996
Copyright 1996 digital innovations limited
All rights reserved

-- What is Rezonator?
Rezonator is a Resource Editor for the BeBox. It is a part
of what will eventually become the Digital Resource Kit.

-- What is a BeBox
BeBox is a cool new dual processor PowerPC machine. If you wish to
know more about it, check out http://www.be.com.


-- Installing Rezonator.
To install Rezonator, copy the Rezonator10a1.tar.gz archive to your BeBox.
Open a terminal window and go to the location where you copied the
archive to. Type in the following:

gzip -dvc Rezonator10a1.tar.gz > Rezonator10a1.tar
tar xfv Rezonator10a1.tar
setfile -r

-- Using Rezonator
When you launch Rezonator, you will get a standard file open dialog
to open a file for editing. You may also drag and drop items onto
the Rezonator icon in the Browser.

Rezonator will list the resource types available in the file.
Double clicking on a resource type brings up a resource "Lister"
window. The defualt lister shows you the id, name and size of
each resource of the chosen type. You may create/add add-on listers
that display the resources differently (a list of icons for example)

Double clicking on an individual resource instance will bring up a
resource "Editor" window. The defualt editor is a hex editor (this is
based on SafeHex, another digital innovations product.) You may
create/add add-ons that are designed to provide other editing
interfaces. (A sample "APPI Editor" is a included with source code)

-- WARNING
This is a alpha product. There are a lot of things missing. I
chose to release it in the state it is in because it is quite
usable. 

WARNING:	Be sure to always work on a copy of a file and not
			the original. If Rezonator crashes while editing
			a resource file, the resources in that file may be
			damaged. The next version of Resonator will use
			temporary files to prevent this.

-- Costs and Legal Stuff
This version Rezonator is freeware. This means it can be freely
distributed so long as:

1) The end user does not have to pay for it.
2) This documentation is included with the archive.
3) Rezonator and this documentation are not modified in any way.

The Rezonator application and this documentation are written by
Narayan Sainaney and fall under the copyrights of digital innovations
limited. Be and the BeBox are trademarks of Be Inc.

-- Contacting digital innovations limited
You can reach me at narayans@paradigm.bc.ca
with your comments or bug reports.

digital innovations limited
903-950 Cambie Street
Vancouver BC
V6B 5X5
CANADA

