Re: MAKINTRESOURCE

From:
"John Carson" <jcarson_n_o_sp_am_@netspace.net.au>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 8 Oct 2006 01:08:19 +1000
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"mac2uk" <mac2uk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1160231817.930771.3180@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com

well i am making a basic Skeleton program (in C++ (the program i am
using it on is Dev-c++)) what other programs are going to go on top of
and well i was compiling it and i get a error saying that
"MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_SKELETON));" like was wrong

In function `int WinMain(HINSTANCE__*, HINSTANCE__*, CHAR*, int)':
34 `IDI_SKELETON' undeclared (first use this function)
(Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it
appears in.)
[Build Error] [Skeleton.o] Error 1

and i have no clue what is wrong with it (yes i am a noob to C++ as
well)


I am unfamiliar with Dev-c++, so I will just tell you how it works in VC++.

IDI_SKELETON is an identifier for a resource and is typically defined in a
file called resource.h. Something like:

#define IDI_SKELETON 101

You need to

#include "resource.h"

in any file that refers to IDI_SKELETON so that the definition is visible in
that file.

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John Carson

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