Where do you find a good resource editor [not a compiler] ? What I want is a way to create Icons, Strings etc. and bind them into apps. The LCC-Win32 WEditRes is pretty good, but it only creates Dialog Boxes. I hear that there's a Microsoft Resource Editor available for free download on the net, but I can't find it.

I don't think a resource editor is really the solutions for string (tables). I'd
just create those with a regular editor.
Icons is something different though.

Jan



pramod wrote:

> Where do you find a good resource editor [not a compiler] ? What I want is a way to create Icons, Strings etc. and bind them into apps. The LCC-Win32 WEditRes is pretty good, but it only creates Dialog Boxes. I hear that there's a Microsoft Resource Editor available for free download on the net, but I can't find it.

The ccc-win32's resource editor can create
o Dialog boxes
o Menus
o String tables
o Icons
o Accelerator tables

Outputs:
.rc
.res
.dlg (for the dialogs only)
.c (It can generate the skeleton of the dialog function)
.h Generates the #defines for the resources

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32

"pramod" <pramod_sx@rediffmail.com> wrote in message news:9buupp$1asc$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Where do you find a good resource editor [not a compiler] ? What I want is
a
> way to create Icons, Strings etc. and bind them into apps. The LCC-Win32 WEditRes is pretty good, but it only creates Dialog Boxes. I hear that there's a Microsoft Resource Editor available for free download on the
net,
> but I can't find it.
>
>

Hi Jacob. Your email address simply bounces, and the url below also fails. -Walter

jacob navia wrote in message <9gb8ap$2n4l$1@digitaldaemon.com>...

>http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32

It works for me..

Walter <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:9gbvqs$2sk$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hi Jacob. Your email address simply bounces, and the url below also fails. -Walter
>
> jacob navia wrote in message <9gb8ap$2n4l$1@digitaldaemon.com>...
>
> >http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32
>
>
>

pramod wrote:
> Where do you find a good resource editor [not a compiler] ?
in shrinkwrapped products :(
> What I want is a way to create Icons, Strings etc. and bind them into apps.
> The LCC-Win32 WEditRes is pretty good, but it only creates Dialog Boxes.
> I hear that there's a Microsoft Resource Editor available for free download
> on the net, but I can't find it.
it's in one of the DDKs or SDKs actually probably the PDK. it's pretty basic, Borland Resource Workshop is much better, as are BC5's IDE which can act as a resource editor and MSVInterdev but those are all commercial...

> Borland Resource Workshop is much better, as are BC5's IDE which can act as a resource editor and MSVInterdev but those are all commercial...

Borland's IDE is much better than what?!

I wrote:
> Borland Resource Workshop is much better, as are BC5's IDE which can act as a resource editor and MSVInterdev but those are all commercial...

Jan Knepper wrote:
> Borland's IDE is much better than what?!
microsoft's extremely clumsy but free resource editor. -- I'm not talking about for development, merely for resource editing. Personally I like resource workshop the best of my 3 choices: Workshop, BC5, VI6 (* this is not the free one which is clumsy, it's a better yet still doggy one).

VI's icon editor is a real dog, unfortunately all of them have unequal support for icons of varying colordepth and dimension. VI was trying to convince me that to save an icon i edited which was loaded by using a rc script that i needed to save the script and that it needed to deal other damage to stuff.

i know no one here likes borland's ide (i just spent the entire night reading this newsgroup -- in its entirety)

I suppose since i have the DMC cd i should try the ide there,... looking.
Ah, RS32.EXE (DM ResourceStudio).
Quick critique: no All Files (or All Supported) in Open files type, dialog is not a common dialog [you can put extra elements into a common dialog)

Doesn't allow editing of 24bit bitmaps :( -- doesn't even open them
Crashes while trying to load a tiny rc. (references one icon which is loadable and one 24bit bmp)
Doesn't seem to support editing multiple images from a single icon.
Ok, I figured out how to do this, sorry i'm spoiled by Workshop, on windows I expect a tree view, this drop down list to select different icons that rs/vi use really bothers me [i'm kind of a mac lover, and i grew up using ResEdit, workshop is the closest i've gotten to resedit -- which of course let you see all the icons at once...]
Can't create 48x48x icons. (ideally allow me to enter arbitrary dimensions)
doesn't honor xmouse.  I'm hovering over the resource studio [sdi]'window' so i expect alt-f to trigger it's menu, instead it triggers a document window.

crashes trying to edit mozilla.exe (binary resources -- includes 24bit bmp so it's likely the same problem)

hrm the cd has the ms tools, well since someone asked, here are the ones i recognize before i get distracted

DLGEDIT.EXE FONTEDIT.EXE IMAGEDIT.EXE AVIEDIT.EXE ... i'm seeing a pattern here. imagedit can handle ico, cur and bmp

there's an ANIEDIT.EXE somewhere according to google it was avail w/ the nt3.5rk and the 98 and there are lots of download sites...

Josh Soref wrote:

> microsoft's extremely clumsy but free resource editor.

Agreed! <g>

> i know no one here likes borland's ide (i just spent the entire night reading this newsgroup -- in its entirety)

<g>
I have used and tried to use the Borland C++ Builder IDE ever since version 1.0 and they've gone from bad to worse! <g>
Currently I still have 5.0 sitting on my harddisk just because I like compile my stuff with at least two compilers... The IDE is a serious problem though. It just add's INCLUDE and LIB paths. When ever a project gets serious, I would say over 25 source files it becomes un-maintainable as the project manager can not deal easily with that
amount of files.

> I suppose since i have the DMC cd i should try the ide there,... looking.

RS32.EXE is purly concentrated around the IDDE. It has it's own .RC file format and indeed only works with a little bit 'older' standards as it has not been updated for years. There is work being done on it, but first is to get it all back together in a better way than it is now.

Jan

"Josh Soref" <soref@wam.umd.edu> wrote in message news:3B409BF1.E5CC2D00@wam.umd.edu...
> pramod wrote:
> > Where do you find a good resource editor [not a compiler] ?
> in shrinkwrapped products :(
> > What I want is a way to create Icons, Strings etc. and bind them into
apps.
> > The LCC-Win32 WEditRes is pretty good, but it only creates Dialog Boxes.

I posted that before but here goes again
The lcc-win32 resource editor can edit
string tables,
menus,
accelerators,
but the image editor is poor.