3.6 Resource-Management Functions

Resource-management functions find and load application resources from a
Windows executable file. A resource can be a cursor, icon, bitmap, string, or font.
Following are the resource-management functions:

Function Description

AccessResource Opens the specified resource.
AllocResource Allocates uninitialized memory for a resource.
FindResource Determines the location of a resource.
FreeResource Removes a loaded resource from memory.
LoadAccelerators Loads an accelerator table.
LoadBitmap Loads a bitmap resource.
LoadCursor Loads a cursor resource.
LoadIcon Loads an icon resource.
LoadMenu Loads a menu resource.
LoadResource Loads a resource.
LoadString Loads a string resource.
LockResource Retrieves the absolute memory address of a resource.
SetResourceHandler Sets up a function to load resources.
SizeofResource Supplies the size, in bytes, of a resource.