Default control names

[Artimus]

Hi,

Is it possible to change the default control names assigned to controls when they are created by the dialog editor? For example, could I make it so that rather than being called "IDC_BTN1", a new button would be called "BTN_1" by default? That way changing the name to "BTN_ABOUT" or "BTN_EXIT" would be even easier and the final constant name would be shorter than "IDC_BTN_ABOUT".

The reason I'm asking is that it seems to me the name "IDC_BTN1" is only used by RadASM in the resource scripts anyway, and that if I want to have a constant identifier for the control in code, I have to define a constant for it in code anyway.  So my thought is why not just make a default name that is useful and succinct in code since the resource scripts are managed by RadASM automatically?

Thanks in advance.

[Shantanu Gadgil]

Hi Artimus (and Ketilo :) )

this is a kind of "to each his own" thing but how about if we can have a convention for the control names:
IDB_??? for buttons
IDCB_??? for comboboxes
IDLB_??? for listboxes
IDLV_??? for listview
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.
.
etc...

I have found the IDB_??? a bit simpler than the IDC_BTN??? thing :)

[KetilO]

Hi

Here is a very simple addin that lets you modify default names and captions.

KetilO

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[Artimus]

Thank you very much.