RES Files

[Werner Bleckwendt]

Hi,

I'm new to PowerBasic. Please forgive me, if this was already asked.

I am going to create a GUI with the Dialog Editor supplied with PBDLL60. Everything works fine. A .RES file is created, and I assumed, this should be converted in a .PBR file with the PBRES.EXE utility. Whenever I tried to do the conversion I got the message "Error: Not a 32-bit Resource File
(make sure you are using the 32-bit Resource Compiler)" Any idea what I did wrong?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
rgds


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[Lance Edmonds]

You need to tell the resource compiler (RC.EXE) that it should create aa 32-bit resource file. From memory, the command-line switch is -32 (you can check this by typing "RC /?" from the command-line).

However, the easiest way is to load the resource (*.RC or *.DLG) into the IDE (modify the .DLG file as necessary and save as a .RC), and click Compile. PowerBASIC will compile a resource script for you. Note: make sure "capitalize keywords" is not active or the resource script will not be compiled as many of the RC keywords are case sensitive (such as "#include", etc).

Finally, there are a few FAQ postings in the FAQ Forum about using DLGEDIT with PowerBASIC and PowerGEN - they may be helpful to you.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Werner Bleckwendt]

Thanks for your quick reply!

rgds

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