Re: defragmenting resid.h

From:

Scot T Brennecke <ScotB@Spamhater.MVPs.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:02:20 -0500

Message-ID:

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Manish Agarwal wrote:

Hi,

I have a large resid.h generated/maintained by VS2005 which have many
fragmented range of Ids. I have few IDs defined in this file as:

#define ID_VIEW2 32793
#define ID_EXPORT2 32795
#define ID_IMPORT2 32798

At the end of this file next command value is defined as:

#define _APS_NEXT_COMMAND_VALUE 32794

Please let me know if VS2005 is capable enough to fill such gaps like I have
32794 as next available ID but after that 32795 is not available. The
problem is whenever I try to add few new control on my dialogs, VS2005
define some duplicate IDs and compiler show duplicate ID message. Is there
any way to recreate or defragment resid.h

Regards,
Manish

The VS Resource Editor is NOT smart enough to avoid duplicates. Every once in a while, I like to manually edit my resource.h file
and "pack out" the gaps by renumbering things. This can be very dangerous, and I don't recommend it for those who aren't
well-versed in the possible consequences of mistakes.

In lieu of the dangerous manual renumbering I do, the ResOrg utility (http://www.riverblade.co.uk/products/resorg/index.html) has
been regarded as a very useful tool for anyone's VC++ "tool kit".