Customizing Netscape's buttons and menus
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Courtesy of Fravia´s Site of Reverse Engineering.
According to Fravia there are three main resource editors: WRT = Whitewater Resource Toolkit for Windows 3.1 which is a very good tool. BRW = Borland Resource Workshop, last version 4.5 shipped with Borland C++ 4,5 This resource editor is still the best one. SRS = Symantec Resource Studio 32, Version 1.0, (c) 1995, nice graphic and frills, works not as good as BRW. This is the Whitewater product without the knowledge of the Wizards at Borland, "restyled" and "updated" to 32 bit by the average programmers at Symantec, according to Fravia. WRE = Watcom Resource Editor for Windows NT, version 11.0. A good resource editor, yet not as good as Borland's BRW 4.5. WRE.EXE is only 174.592, but it needs a lot of other "parts" and *.dlls to work What will follow in the next page is an example on how to use a resource editor to customize Netscape´s menubar and buttons. It is a very interesting essay by Mammon_. The essay is also to be found on Mammon_´s own and very good page. The instructions are easy to follow and the browser will turn out a lot more handy and useful on the web. The customization works on all versions of Netscape, even if the target line # might vary. I consider it important to make this knowledge available for as many as possible. Especially for those many of us who are not active as programmers, but want to gain control over our software tools. This is the kind of information anyone, without deep knowledge about computers and programming, can put to use. Like Pablo Neruda once said; " the poets words are to be used by the one who needs them ".
I hope that both Fravia and Mammon_ feel that they get enough credit for their work in these pages :-).
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