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Pinky
Pinky

Reputation: 1227

Can anyone help me out to load values in string table vc++ mfc programatically

Can anyone help me to load values in a STRINGTABLE in vc++ programmatically? I'm using the MFC.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3566

Answers (4)

Justin
Justin

Reputation: 4072

You can load strings directly from a string table using the LoadString method, I use it all the time.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms647486(v=vs.85).aspx

CStringW myString;
myString.LoadString(RESOURCE_ID); //where RESOURCE_ID is the Stringtable 
                                  //entry ID

*EDIT: Thanks for the input this makes the answer much better!!

Upvotes: 4

Mark Ransom
Mark Ransom

Reputation: 308206

It's hard to know what you're really asking for, but I'm going to try an answer. This assumes you're asking how to put the strings into resources, rather than how to read an existing resource.

The .rc file containing the resources can contain #include directives. All you have to do is write out a text file containing the strings you want to include, along with the STRINGTABLE, BEGIN, and END directives along with the ID of each string. You should also create a .h file that defines each of the IDs and include that in the .rc too.

Upvotes: 0

Ajay
Ajay

Reputation: 18431

You can have a custom resource where you would put a text file. At runtime, read that text file as resource.

void GetResourceAsString(int nResourceID, CStringA &strResourceString)
{
    HRSRC hResource = FindResource(NULL, MAKEINTRESOURCE(nResourceID),  L"DATA");

    HGLOBAL hResHandle = LoadResource(NULL, hResource);

    // Resource is ANSII
    const char* lpData = static_cast<char*> ( LockResource(hResHandle) );    
    strResourceString.SetString(lpData, SizeofResource(NULL, hResource));

    FreeResource(hResource);
}

Where DATA would be your custom resource type, and nResource would be resource-id under DATA resource type. Of course, you can choose another other name rather than "DATA".

Upvotes: 2

Bernd Elkemann
Bernd Elkemann

Reputation: 23550

Normally you define for each string a constant that gets included in your program as well as in the resource-file. The string resource is then placed in the .rsrc-section of your executable and strings can be retrieved with LoadString() by naming the defined constant for that string.

Maybe you instead want to iterate through all the string-resources of your executable at run-time? You can do that by reading your process-memory at the appropriate entry in the PE-struct. You can find the string-table entry in the PE-struct if you tahttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463119.aspx under "Resource Directory Table" or have a look into the winapi include-files which define the PE-structs.

Upvotes: 0

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