This resource-definition statement specifies one or more string resources for an application. String resources are null-terminated Unicode strings that can be loaded as needed from the executable file, using the LoadString function.
Syntax
STRINGTABLE [[optional-statements]] { stringID string . . . }
Parameters
optional-statements
Specifies options for a STRINGTABLE resource. It can be zero or more of the following statements:
| Value | Description |
| CHARACTERISTICS dword | User-defined information about a resource that can be used by tools that read and write resource files. For more information, see CHARACTERISTICS. |
| LANGUAGE language, sublanguage | Specifies the language for the resource. For more information, see LANGUAGE. |
| VERSION dword | User-defined version number for the resource that can be used by tools that read and write resource files. For more information, see VERSION. |
stringID
Specifies an unsigned 16-bit integer that identifies the resource.
string
Specifies one or more strings, enclosed in double quotation marks. The string must be no longer than 4,097 characters and must occupy a single line in the source file. To add a carriage return to the string, use this character sequence: \012. For example, “Line one\012Line two” defines a string that is displayed as follows:
Line one
Line two
Example
The following code example shows how to use the STRINGTABLE statement.
#define IDS_HELLO 1
#define IDS_GOODBYE 2
STRINGTABLE
{
IDS_HELLO, "Hello"
IDS_GOODBYE, "Goodbye"
}
See Also
LoadString, ACCELERATORS, CHARACTERISTICS, DIALOG, LANGUAGE, MENU, RCDATA, VERSION