How use Vis Studio 5 to compile resources ?

[Robert Lightbourne Member Find all posts View Profile Close Robert Lightbourne]

How do I use MS Visual Studio 5 to compile resources for PBDLL6 ?

The PowerGen manual says we can use MS Visual Studio to compile resources instead of the DLGEDIT method.

I have tried using Visual Studio 5 and have come away confused because the files it creates are not the same as those created by DLGEDIT.

Robert

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[Fred Oxenby Member Find all posts View Profile Close Fred Oxenby]

I dont have ver. 5 installedanymore, but If I remember correctly
you have the option to save your resource-script as a
resource-file:
So the easy answer is
Save as "MYRESOURCE.RES"
PBRES MYRESOURCE.RES
and you have a readyToUse MYRESOURCE.PBR


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[Lance Edmonds Member Find all posts View Profile Close Lance Edmonds]

Assuming you've already used VC's IDE to create the resource script:

1. Make sure you switch off the MFC features of your resource script in VC5's IDE (right-click on the root level of your RC file in the IDE, select Properties).

2. Save the RC file.

3. Choose SAVE-AS, select .RES format, and click OK. Answer YES to overwrite.

4. Execute PBRES on the .RES file.

Alternatively, if you want to compile the .RC file from the command line, you'll need to use RC.EXE that shipped with VC5 (not the one shipped with PB/DLL). In my machine, that is located at "I:\DEVSTU~1\SHARED~1\BIN\RC.EXE"

Here is my BUILD32.BAT file for VC5 and PB/DLL 6.0

 if exist %1.exe del %1.exe
 I:\DEVSTU~1\SHARED~1\BIN\RC /R /II:\DEVSTU~1\SHARED~1\TEMPLATE\ATL %2 
 F:\PBDLL60\BIN\PBRES %2
 F:\PBDLL60\BIN\PBDLL %1 /IF:\PBDLL60\WINAPI
 if exist %1.exe %1.exe

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