OWL Interface Resources

[Rick Quatro]

I did manage to make the Show Element Context dialog larger for FrameMaker
10. Here is how I did it.

1) I opened a copy of fminit/fmdlg.dll with a resource editor. I used
ResourceHacker.
2) I navigated to Dialog\ELEM_CTX\1033 and opened it.
3) I dragged the dialog and its list boxes to make them bigger and
repositioned the Display Designer button to the bottom.
4) I clicked the Compile Script button at the top of the window, and saved
and closed the file.
5) After backing up my original fminit/fmdlg.dll, I copied the modified one
to the fminit folder.
6) After restarting FrameMaker, I can display and use the bigger Show
Element Context dialog box.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very
much.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
rick at frameexpert.com





Freiends,
the only thing I could do with my knowledge and tools is:
- extract all images (icons) from owlres.dll, fmres.dll and fmcustom.dll to
get their names.
- use some of these icons (by name) in tool bar xml-files.
The icons are there in a png-notation.
fmcustom.dll now also contains png images, no more bmp bit maps.
I have pdfs with all the images and names, see
http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker60.html

You may look into http://www.daube.ch/docu/files/etb-customising-fm.pdf and 

Dialogs from owlres.dll can be seen in a resource editor, the items can be
changed - but i have not tested whether they can be 'saved/compiled' again
...
Dialogs are split into two resources in the Adam and Eve container (yes
that's the names of them). The items look (for me) like c-programs. If you
open owlres.dll in a hex editor you see this text starting about in the
middle of the file.

This OWL stuff is Adobe special - i have not found any explanation of the
term owl. Googling leads to quite old documents about Borland ObjectWindows
containing this abbreviation in number - but is it this?

To sum up: I have no idea how to modify the owl-dialogs.

Klaus
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