Re: String resource identifiers

From:

"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>

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microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:18:49 -0700

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Make sure your code does not use MAKEINTRESOURCE, but the
real string. Note one usually uses more friendly names when using
strings for resource names...

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"Alan Carre" <alan@twilightgames.com> wrote in message
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"Alan Carre" <alan@twilightgames.com> wrote in message
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I'm wondering if it is possible to load a dialog resource which uses a
"string" identifier instead of a number? For instance, in my .rc file I
have:

// Test.rc
"IDD_ALREADY_RUNNING" DIALOGEX DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 173, 71

I refer to resources by name all the time. I've never quoted the names in
the resource compiler script, though I don't know if that's an issue. In
addition, if you let the wizard manage "resource.h" I'd make sure that no
constant by the same is #define'd.

Regards,
Will

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. 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). I know if I'm very careful I can choose
numbers that probably won't conflict, but I'd rather not have to be extra
careful.

- Alan