the Resource Creator

The following keyboard short-cuts have been assigned to these operations, to make the editing of text strings even faster:

key         effect
[Return]    Replace the existing text string at the current position by new text,
            completely erasing the original entry.
[F-1]       Insert text into a new position in the list, moving all of the existing entries
            one place down.
[Del]       Erase the current line and completely remove it from the message list.
[Esc]       Abort the operation and return to the selection window.

Automatic Bank grabbing
Similarly to the Sample Bank and Object Bank editors, AMOS Professional provides an automatic method of grabbing a bank with the Resource Creator. Supposing you are working on a program, and you decide to create a Resource Bank. The following steps should be followed:

• Select the [Resource Ed] option from the user menu. The program will be loaded and sent to the command line "GRAB".
• The Resource Creator will grab the current program's bank automatically, and you are now free to modify it. If your current program has no available bank, simply create a new one or load a bank that has already been defined. The Resource Creator will display a "GRABBED" message immediately in front of the name of the bank.
• When you select the [QUIT] option, you will be asked if you want to copy the modified bank back into your edited program.
• On returning to the main AMOS Professional Edit screen, your modified Resource Bank will be in place.

The advantage of this automatic system is that it very fast, because it suppresses the saving of a bank from the edited program, the need to load and save it from the Editor and then re-load it from the edited program.