How can I define an Icon and used in source?

[Hui Zhao]

Dear all:

I am an chinese, and living in MainLand(PRC). I don't know the the file type that end with RC.
what does this soucre means? see as below.

IDI_BLIZZARD ICON "Res\Blizzard.ico"
IDI_BLIZZARD_SM ICON "Res\Blizzard_sm.ico"

I can comple a project,but the programe does not load the icon.what can I do?

Thanks a lot.
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[Hui Zhao]

Thank you , andybuonviri, two icon file have exist on F disc,,and my project establish on c disc.

Can give this statement a path? such as below:

IDI_BLIZZARD       ICON "F:\book\example\Chap02\Blizzard\Res\\Blizzard.ico"
IDI_BLIZZARD_SM    ICON "F:\book\example\Chap02\Blizzard\Res\\Blizzard_sm.ico"

Thanks a lot, marry christmas!

Hi: aajmillan:

as your suggeste, I don't know How to using these symbols "//,\\"  can you take me an example for this.

my system is Vista ,I use Dev C++ 4.9.9.2 to learning program.

when I compile thoes source ,and then an error occure :

installtion problem: cannot exec 'cc1':no such file or directory
[Resource error] no Resource
[Build error][blizzard_private.res]Error 1.

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these source is an explam of book named Geginning Game programming, write by Michael Morrison. Thanks for visit this information

[Osito]

Yes you can give it a path. Your original example had a relative path (Res\...) and you can have a full path as well. You need double-slashes because it will be interpreted as a string and '\' is the escape character. So for instance you would use:

IDI_BLIZZARD ICON "F:\book\example\Chap02\Blizzard\Res\Blizzard.ico"

The suggestion by ajmillan was simply a way to avoid the need for double-slashes. Using the forward slash, which is not a special character in a string, will work as well, as in his example. You can use any of the three options: single forward slash, double backslash, double forward slash.

If you are getting the cc1 not found error then I think you might have a Vista problem, which is explained in the "please read before posting" thread.

[Osito]

RC is a file containing Windows resources. The two lines you posted are icons to be included in the project. Do those files exist? Are the icons valid?

[Anonymous]

Supposedly to define an icon in a .RC file you need some as:

IDI_BLIZZARD ICON "Res/Blizzard.ico" // OR \ if you prefer
IDI_BLIZZARD_SM ICON ICON "Res/Blizzard_sm.ico"

Later, you need "load" the icon and put it any where.