How the Image Editor Works with Files

The Image Editor creates or modifies bitmap (.BMP), icon (.ICO), and cursor (.CUR) files.

These files can become the resources for Windows applications. You can include them in the resource script file that the Resource Compiler uses to build a compiled resource (.RES) file.

Figure 3.1 illustrates the process of incorporating bitmap, icon, and cursor files into an executable application. For detailed information on this process, see Chapter 7, “The Resource Compiler.”

In the Graphical Development Environment, the last two steps of this process—
compiling and building—happen automatically.