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Ressource editor/manager
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:36 pm
by Hroudtwolf
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
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:35 am
by gnozal
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:32 pm
by freak
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:32 am
by Rook Zimbabwe
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.