You Can’t Fire Me, I Don’t Work In This Van

Comments haven’t been working. I’m fixing them now, but I have to dig through all the spam to approve pending comments. So if you submitted a comment in… uhhhh… the last few months since the switch to Dreamhost, maybe earlier, they didn’t go through. Shouldn’t happen in the future.

I’ve been getting quite a few requests recently for a new Catalyst build, so I took a break from the project I was working on to compile up a new copy. The only change is this copy is built against the newest version of ThemeKit, so it works with the Extras.rsrc platform profile standard devised by Geekspiff.

The reason Catalyst previously did not let you export .rsrc’s is because I didn’t want rsrc’s getting out into the world without profiles. There will be a build coming that will allow one to generate Extras.rsrc files from Catalyst for whatever it is you’d like to do with an Extras.rsrc. As a bonus, after lots of re-writing of the Intel compatibility code, you’ll be able to choose which platform you want to generate the Extras.rsrc for. On Intel and want to ship your PowerPC friend an Extras.rsrc file? No problem.

If people keep bothering me, I’ll get a new build out that exposes this functionality in the GUI of Catalyst.

I’m knee deep in a 10.5 based project right now. Originally it was targeted for 10.4, but at WWDC last year I met with some people and I decided the project would be much better suited for 10.5. If the blog has been quiet, it’s because I can’t really talk about my current project without talking about 10.5… and that would go to well with Apple. But, when sufficiently prodded I am maintaining Catalyst.