Re: String resource identifiers

From:

"William DePalo [MVP VC++]" <willd.no.spam@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Sun, 3 Jun 2007 00:46:05 -0400

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"Alan Carre" <alan@twilightgames.com> wrote in message
news:uW6ZxZYpHHA.4512@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Well that's just the problem. When you use a string identifier to load the
resource, it converts it to an integer identifier which is not what I
want.

What is "it"? As I said, I name my resources rather than number them. And I
pass a real string and not some hokey thing I'd get with the MAKEINTRESOURCE
macro to the access functions.

I would like to be able to have named resources so that I don't wind up
with ID conflicts when building with multiple .rc files (each having their
own dialog resources).

That should work.

On the other hand, if you are asking if you can use a quoted string to name
a resource as in your original post, e.g.

    "IDD_ALREADY_RUNNING"

so that

you can tag another one

    IDD_ALREADY_RUNNING

where you also have a line like

    #define IDD_ALREADY_RUNNING nn

in a header that's included in the resource script then I have no idea if
that is possible but I'd be surprised if the parser is that smart.

Regards,
Will