Resource Script stuff

[Bern Ertl]

I've just started to investigate the use of a .RC file to
add my own custom icons and version information into the app
I'm writing.

I've been playing with the sample SKELETON.BAS & .RC files which
are included with PBDLL6. I have two questions regarding the .RC
file:

1) What is the purpose of the following line in the script?

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO

2) What is the meaning/purpose of the string next to the block
statement?

BEGIN
  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
  BEGIN
    BLOCK "040904E4"   <--- Here
    BEGIN
      VALUE "CompanyName",      "PowerBASIC, Inc.\000"
..etc..

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Bernard Ertl

[Edwin Knoppert]

on basicguru/zijlema is a doc about this matter.
Maybe it's in there?


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[Clay Clear]

Bern,

The first line says that what follows is a block providing the
version information for the program.

The second line tells the resource compiler that the language
for it is "English [USA]". To find out different language
settings, refer to the EQUATE's in RESOURCE.H.

Hope this helped!

Regards,


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Clay C. Clear

[email protected]

http://www.v3space.com/a/a39/202/

[Egbert Zijlema]

Originally posted by Edwin Knoppert:
on basicguru/zijlema is a doc about this matter.
Maybe it's in there?

Thanks, Edwin to refer to my page. To be more precise: it is this article: "Do Microsoft programmers disobey their own programming rules?"



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[Bern Ertl]

Clay,

Thanks for the tip. I got it.

Edwin & Egbert,

Excellent stuff! I spent half the night searching through
various books in my library looking for that info! Many thanks...




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Bernard Ertl