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c++ - A Free Resource EDITOR

reply "pramod" <pramod_sx rediffmail.com> writes:
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.
Apr 22 2001
next sibling parent Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:
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.
Apr 22 2001
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "jacob navia" <jacob jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:
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
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 Where do you find a good resource editor [not a compiler] ? What I want is




 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




 but I can't find it.
Jun 14 2001
parent reply "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:
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
Jun 14 2001
parent "Kar Gay Lim" <kagay kimay.net> writes:
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
Jun 16 2001
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Josh Soref <soref wam.umd.edu> writes:
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.
Jul 02 2001
next sibling parent reply Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:
 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?!
Jul 02 2001
parent reply Josh Soref <soref wam.umd.edu> writes:
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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?!




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...
Jul 02 2001
parent Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:
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
Jul 02 2001
prev sibling parent reply "jacob navia" <jacob jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:
"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] ?




 What I want is a way to create Icons, Strings etc. and bind them into







 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.
Jul 04 2001
parent reply Josh Soref <soref wam.umd.edu> writes:
jacob navia wrote:

 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.



sigh. it gives me 5 errors when i try to open a simple splash.rc
complains that mozilla.exe is not a valid win32 resource file (!?)

finding the 'directory' button was a real chore, and having that window
randomly disappear didn't help matters.

windows pretend to be mdi until you start using them at which point you get
totally confused.

I'm sorry to sound so negative, i guess most resource editors aren't perfect.
Jul 04 2001
parent "jacob navia" <jacob jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:
"Josh Soref" <soref wam.umd.edu> wrote in message
news:3B440FE8.427548CE wam.umd.edu...

 jacob navia wrote:

 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.



 sigh. it gives me 5 errors when i try to open a simple splash.rc



Which errors?

Please send it to me, I'll fix it when I return from holidays.

 complains that mozilla.exe is not a valid win32 resource file (!?)





 finding the 'directory' button was a real chore, and having that window



???

The "directory" button is 20x20 pixels... Maybe you need glasses?


 windows pretend to be mdi until you start using them at which point you



That option is being implemented now. True, I should take it out, and in 2
weeks take it in, bu why care?


 I'm sorry to sound so negative, i guess most resource editors aren't



Maybe. Mine isn't perfect either. Just 5 years of work
Jul 05 2001
prev sibling next sibling parent anonymous <anonymous_member pathlink.com> writes:
try google search "resource hacker"
Dec 19 2004
prev sibling parent "Goncalo Farias" <mad netc.pt> writes:
Hi, 

I found this Resource Editor. Didn't try it yet but since this is a
recurrent question...

http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d9resourceeditor.htm

~/gnf.pt
Mar 17 2005