Resource Editor Tasks

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The integrated development environment provides resource editors for editing the resources in your program’s resource (.RC) file. The following tasks cover using those editors. Visual C++ also supplies sample resources, such as icons, cursors, and toolbar buttons, that you can use in your programs.

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Topics on the Resource Editors

• Create or edit accelerator key assignments
  
  
• Create or edit binary data resources
  
  
• Create or edit dialog boxes
  
  
• Create or edit images: bitmaps, icons, cursors
  
  
• Create or edit menus
  
  
• Create or edit string resources
  
  
• Create or edit symbols
  
  
• Create or edit toolbars
  
  
• Create or edit version information resources

General Resource Editing Topics

• Work with resource files
  
  
• Import resource script files created by other applications
  
  
• Add MFC support to resource script files
  
  
• Use advanced resource file techniques
  
  
• Change the name of the symbol header file
  
  
• Use shared (read-only) or calculated symbols
  
  
• Include resources from other files
  
  
• Change resources while copying them
  
  
• Change the language of a resource
  
  
• Change the property condition of a resource
  
  
• Import and export resources
  
  
• Property pages for ActiveX controls and accelerator keys

Dialog Editor Topics

• Use the dialog editor in Visual C++
  
  
• Import a Visual Basic form
  
  
• Use ActiveX controls in a dialog box
  
  
• See tips for using the dialog editor effectively in Visual C++

Graphics Editor Topics

• Use the graphics editor in Visual C++
  
  
• Create or edit icons and cursors

Menu Editor Topics

• Use the menu editor in Visual C++
  
  
• Create pop-up menus
  
  
• View the menu resource as a pop-up menu
  
  
• Associate a menu item with an accelerator key
  
  
• Associate a menu item with a status bar prompt

Symbol Editor Topics

• Use the symbol editor
  
  
• Learn about working with symbols
  
  
• Learn about symbol name restrictions
  
  
• Learn about symbol value restrictions
  
  
• Change a symbol or symbol name
  
  
• Change a symbol’s numerical value
  
  
• Manage symbols with the Resource Symbols browser
  
  
• Change the name of the symbol header file
  
  
• Use shared (read-only) or calculated symbols

Version Editor Topic

• Use the version editor in Visual C++