I opened a sample resource file (WDF) via MS Visual C++ 5.0 and found that it added alot of extra information. The result was that I could not rebuild the driver (errors).
What is the best tool/method for editing these files? Is MS Visual C++ to be avoided? I did notice that MS Visual C++ appears to be doing a lot of interpretation of file compared to a simple editor.
Thanks…
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve seen VC 5.0; I don’t know if that
is the cause of the problem you are having are not, but it wouldn’t be
the strangest thing. In either case, personally I think the easiest
thing is just to use a simple text editor. I use SlickEdit, but
whatever you like - vs (as a text editor, notepad, ultraedit, et. c.).
Particularly for drivers, resource files are not usually very
complicated.
mm
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I opened a sample resource file (WDF) via MS Visual C++ 5.0 and found
that it added alot of extra information. The result was that I could
not rebuild the driver (errors).
What is the best tool/method for editing these files? Is MS Visual C++
to be avoided? I did notice that MS Visual C++ appears to be doing a
lot of interpretation of file compared to a simple editor.
Thanks…
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How about notepad? What kind of RC editing are you doing? Is it that
complex that you need VS?
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I opened a sample resource file (WDF) via MS Visual C++ 5.0 and found
that it added alot of extra information. The result was that I could
not rebuild the driver (errors).
What is the best tool/method for editing these files? Is MS Visual C++
to be avoided? I did notice that MS Visual C++ appears to be doing a
lot of interpretation of file compared to a simple editor.
Thanks…
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Martin O’Brien wrote:
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve seen VC 5.0; I don’t know if that
is the cause of the problem you are having are not, but it wouldn’t be
the strangest thing.
It is likely that he actually meant VC++ 2005. It is a common (although
confusing and misleading) abbreviation. I don’t think the resource
editor in VC 5.0 understood version resources at all.
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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
I use IDE’s resource editor only to do the sketches of the dialog boxes,
since the fine-grained layout of the dialogs is better to be done via text
editor, by editing coordinates manually.
Visual tools are just plain bad paradigm for such fine-tuning.
As about any resources but dialogs - .RC file is edited manually.
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> I opened a sample resource file (WDF) via MS Visual C++ 5.0 and found that it
added alot of extra information. The result was that I could not rebuild the
driver (errors).
>
> What is the best tool/method for editing these files? Is MS Visual C++ to be
avoided? I did notice that MS Visual C++ appears to be doing a lot of
interpretation of file compared to a simple editor.
>
> Thanks…
>
Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
I use IDE’s resource editor only to do the sketches of the dialog boxes,
since the fine-grained layout of the dialogs is better to be done via text
editor, by editing coordinates manually.Visual tools are just plain bad paradigm for such fine-tuning.
It may be that you just haven’t used the right tools. The resource
editor in Borland’s Delphi was very good at this; it included a set of
good tools for insuring proper alignment and spacing.
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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.