Re: [Dev-C++] Resource files

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Some resource editors allows you to edit the resources in situ. You just
open an existing exe file - make my anoone - and translates... the
resources and then saves them back to the exe file.

/Per W

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Terry L Fritts wrote:

> Hello Louis,
>
> Wednesday, March 19, 2003 you wrote:
> LG> Are .res files optional or must they always be present in WIN32
> LG> API apps ?
>
>     Resource files are not necessary.
>
> LG> What is the advantage of having a menus etc. in the .res file and
> LG> not in the .exe file?
>
>     Resource files are embedded directly into an executable or dll and
>     then at runtime the program uses the resource data.  So if data in
>     the resource file changes the program still has to be recompiled
>     to create the executable.
>
>     Typically you begin with a .rc file (Resource Compiler file) which
>     can be edited. The .rc file is then compiled into a .res file.
>     Some programming languages even have converters for .res files so
>     that you might use it in different application languages.
>
>     Microsoft has a dialog editor (DLGEDIT.EXE) that produces a .dlg
>     file which can be edited with any text editor and saved as a .rc
>     file.  DLGEDIT.exe produces 16 bit binary .res files so normally
>     not usable in 32 bit applications.  You can make a few changes to
>     the .dlg file, save it as .rc and then use dev-c++ to edit it.
>     You mainly just change the block in the .dlg:
>       DLGINCLUDE RCDATA FIXED IMPURE
>       BEGIN
>          "FILE.H\0"
>       END
>     to
>       #include "FILE.H"
>
>     But now if you want to change the ICON or menu strings, other
>     strings, or even other user-defined items you can do it in the .rc
>     file - recompile it to a .res file - and then recompile your
>     application.  But you haven't had to touch your code.
>
>
> Terry Fritts
>
>
>
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