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Brian Reinhold
Brian Reinhold

Reputation: 2475

How can I manually add a resource to a Win32 resource file

Visual Studio Win32 projects have a resource file. One can add and configure controls using a GUI interface. However I have a need to enter about 80 check boxes which is very tedious using the GUI. I can open the resource file in a text editor, but if I try and add a new control, Visual Studio cannot understand it. I used to be able to do that in the old WATCOM C++ IDE/compiler.

Clearly VS is doing something else that just making the resource file.

Is there any way to create and add resources (lie controls) by manually editing the rc file?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1658

Answers (1)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 613451

  1. Write the .rc file.
  2. Use the resource compiler, rc.exe to compile the .rc file to a compiled resource, .res.
  3. Pass the compiled resource to the linker.

Upvotes: 2

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