Re: Something Cool About Vista

I would normally avoid doing it this way. It makes it very difficult to
edit the resources using the IDE. I only did this one application this way
because I needed a totally stand alone program that would run in the correct
language depending on where it is installed. It's a program for restoring
files from a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc. It gets added to the disc at create
time. It needed to be very small (it's around 300K including 6 languages)
and if someone creates a disc in English, then tries to restore it on a
German system I wanted the restore program to run in German (for example).
That all worked OK, I just didn't have a good way to test it since I didn't
have all the languages loaded on my PC.

I also statically linked MFC so this is as stand alone as it can get
(doesn't rely on any DLLs that I can find). There were a few technical
difficulties with this program, like it can't really run from the disc so I
had to make it clone itself onto the harddrive before running, but ... oh
well... you get the idea. One 300K program caused me a lot of grief, but
was really a lot of fun to create.

One thing that is interesting. MFC added less than 150K to the EXE size
(statically linked). I wonder why people call that "code bloat". You could
never do that with .NET (considering no runtime modules). That doesn't even
fill out the sector on the disc :o)

Tom

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