On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:22:05PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >2009/6/26 Christopher Faylor: >> >>Yes. ??Thanks for doing this. ??I hate working with this rc stuff. ??I >> >>used to use Visual C++ to lay out the dialogs but, somewhere along the >> >>line, my installation bit-rotted. >> > >> >Well, adding those #defines is probably the final kiss of death for >> >ever being able to edit it that way again. ??(I tried it myself once, >> >but the first thing I had to do was unwrap all the lines because MSVC6 >> >expected every entry on a single line for some reason. ??It made the >> >whole thing not much use except for noting down a few co-ordinates and >> >transcribing them manually into the real thing.) >> >> Actually, now that you mention it, I saw the same thing and gave up on using >> that technique too. >> >> Is there another, more friendly, tool out there somewhere that can be >> used for playing with this kind of layout? > >I haven't actually used it, but this looks quite promising: > >http://www.resedit.net >http://www.resedit.net/screenshots.htm > >Even mentions MingW and says this: "To open a file which uses Win32 >API symbolic constants, you will also need Win32 header files (usually >coming with you compiler)", which presumably means preprocessor >support.
Thanks. Interesting. I guess it's too much to ask for a version that runs on linux... cgf