[Mingw-users] Re: Great job! & details to make it even better

[Cosmin T. <co...@cs...>]

Greg Chicares <chi...@mi...> wrote:

> Pedro A ARANDA wrote:
> >
> > 1) When compiling resources, I had to add a
> > #define IDC_STATIC -1
> > which doesn't seem to be defined anywhere.
> 
> This looks like a user-defined macro that is not a standard part
> of windows.

It is not part of WINAPI, but of MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes).
I wouldn't be suprised if the resource editor would use MFC-based
definitions even when MFC is not used.

To have access to it, you need to #include <afxres.h>, but you might not
have this file if you don't have MFC installed. MFC is not implemented by
Mingw.
IDC_STATIC is the only IDC_ symbol defined by "afxres.h", the others are
prefixed with AFX_IDC_. That's why I have the impression that IDC_STATIC
should have been defined in the WINAPI headers, but M$ added the symbol
only later, and it added it to MFC.

> > 2) The new M$ tools to edit resources seem to add an additional
> > parameter to the FONT definition in DIALOG resources and windres
> > chokes at that. Just an example of the offending line
> >
> > FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif", 0, 0,0x1
> 
> The only ms documentation I can easily put my hands on doesn't
> mention any extra parameters:
>   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winui/rc_13lg.htm
>   FONT pointsize, "typeface"
> Can you point to public documentation of this new syntax?

I don't know about this one, but it might be as well a MFC extension,
recognized by the their resource compiler.

Cosmin