Ressource editor/manager

Hroudtwolf · Post by **Hroudtwolf** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:36 pm

Hello,

My little wish for a future PB-IDE is a ressource editor/manager.
It where very useful to have such one for creating icon dlls or windowcontrol sets.

Example:

Best regards

Hroudtwolf

gnozal · Post by **gnozal** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:35 am

There is a very nice (freeware) resource editor here : http://www.radasm.com/resed/

o Single exe file, no installation needed.
o Visual dialog editor.
o More than 30 windows controls.
o Custom controls.

Post by **freak** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:32 pm

Resources are a Windows-only concept, which is why we will not support it other
than giving the option to link them with the compiler.

There are many projects out there like the one gnozal pointed out. There
is no need for us to reinvent the wheel.

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:32 am

Actually Fr34k I seem to recall that resources were originally used with Macintosh back before the black and white days. The origianl MAC file format was designed in two prongs (allegedly compatible with the XModem protocall) one prong was the resource prong of the forked file structure. The other prong held data.

Windows was at version 286 back then. I still have a copy somewhere... resources were not named resources then.

By 1989 there were several books on how to program your own GUI. One of them talked a great deal about the MAC interface and the GEM interface and how resources files could be used to hold the image bits of a gui. The book contained code for creatig a simple PAINT program that the author had released as shareware.

I think, and I am not sure of this, windows did not officially start calling resources "resources" until Windows 95... not clear on that though.