.RC commands

[xandaz]

  hi there. Doe anyone know any manual for the .rc commands ? I'm trying to make and RCDATA dword aligned but dont know how. Thanks and  bye

[Vortex]

Hi xandaz,

Here is the manual :

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\masm32\bin\rc.hlp

[dedndave]

mannnnnnn - lol
the rc.hlp file must be for a different version or something
the help-about in the rc.hlp file does not say - it tells me which version of windows i have, though   :P

here is an example from the hlp file

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sample MENU
BEGIN
     MENUITEM "&Soup", 100
     MENUITEM "S&alad", 101
     POPUP "&Entree"
     BEGIN
          MENUITEM "&Fish", 200
          MENUITEM "&Chicken", 201, CHECKED
          POPUP "&Beef"
          BEGIN
               MENUITEM "&Steak", 301
               MENUITEM "&Prime Rib", 302
          END
     END
     MENUITEM "&Dessert", 103
END
error - begin expected in menu

here is the same example as it appears on MSDN

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sample MENU
     {
     MENUITEM "&Soup", 100
     MENUITEM "S&alad", 101
     POPUP "&Entree"
          {
          MENUITEM "&Fish", 200
          MENUITEM "&Chicken", 201, CHECKED
          POPUP "&Beef"
               {
               MENUITEM "&Steak", 301
               MENUITEM "&Prime Rib", 302
               }
          }
     MENUITEM "&Dessert", 103
     }
same error

if i play around and get rid of the begin error, i get "invalid numeric in checked" - lol

[caseys]

im using winasm studio for making .RC config files. nice tool. 

[dedndave]

thanks - i have seen that before
one of the members in here (Erol - i think) wrote ResEdit - resource editor
i may give that a shot

[dedndave]

actually - i'd like to know how to implement the menus in code   :P
that way, i can change them when the context changes

[Vortex]

Hi Dave,

Here is the homepage of RedEdit. ( I am not the author. )

http://www.resedit.net

[dedndave]

thanks, Erol   :U

[Victor Stout]

Here you go:

1. RC statements.
2. RC commands.

[dedndave]

thanks Victor
but, apparently, i do not have the version of RC.EXE that they are talking about
just as well - i want to see how some things are done that aren't necessarily done in resource - or at least, not documented
i will probably see something i like in some other program, RE it, and figure out how to do it - lol
it seems a more effective way of learning, as the documentation is a bit disorganized

[dedndave]

i found a nice tutorial on "another" forum site   :P

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/resnotes.html

i think i see where i was going wrong with the example code posted earlier   :lol

[xandaz]

   I noticed that there's resource.h circulating in the forum that has DWORD BYTE and etc TYPEDEFs. Can i use this for RCDATA type of resource? From what i understand RCDATA is composed from integers. Can it be done directly with DWORD and BYTE and STRUCTS? Thanks and bye.

[dedndave]

that's what it is for
if you mean the one that ~50 Kb - that one is up to date
there are two values that you can look at to see if the one you have is up to date
VOS_WINDOWS32
VFT_APP
those values were not in the old one (and many more, i am sure)

[dedndave]

yeah !!!!
i finally got a nested menu to work - lol
now, if i could just get CHECKED and GRAYED to work   :(

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            MENUITEM "&Standard", 1032, CHECKED

error...

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rsrc.rc (83): error RC2242 : invalid numeric expression at CHECKED

if i replace it with

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            MENUITEM "&Standard", 1032
it works

[Gunner]

Very strange Dave, I have the following in my RC and it works
MENUITEM "&Open...",IDM_OPEN,CHECKED