Get resource type using only the resource name?

[colin glenn]

As an example, in many of Penzold's examples, he uses the program's name as the class name, the menu name, the icon name, ...

[Michael Mattias]

>that would give the type for a supplied resource name

Not possible: For any module you can have more than one resource with any given name, all of different types.

[Anthony Watson]

Thanks Michael and Edwin!

I saw the EnumResourceTypes on MSDN, but it would involve too much code for the simple task I'm trying to accomplish. I was hoping for a single API call or something that would give the type for a supplied resource name. I don't want to go to the trouble of enumerating all the available resources just to find the type of a single resource. It's easier just to pass the type as a variable to my subroutine.

Thanks!

Anthony

[Michael Mattias]

>Wasn't there an enumresources() ?

Nope.

But....

You can EnumResourceTypes(), then in your callback for that, do an EnumResourceNames() for that type... you'll end up with a list of all resources in the target module by name and type.

MCM

FWIW, this is legal

FOO   BITMAP  filename
FOO  ICON      filename
FOO  RCDATA   filename 
FOO  DIALOG

Can't very well ask if the resource named FOO is a bitmap, can you? There's a BITMAP FOO to be sure, but there is also an ICON FOO, a DIALOG named FOO, an RCDATA named FOO... and a boy named Sue, too.

[Edwin Knoppert]

Wasn't there an enumresources() ?

[Anthony Watson]

Is there any way to determine what "type" an object in a resource file from just the resource name?

For example, my resource file has these two objects defined:

PROGRAM ICON home.ICO
TITLE BITMAP title.bmp

If I only have the name (i.e. "TITLE") is there any way to determine programatically that it is a BITMAP resource type?

Thanks,

Anthony