The small application is a goos sample and useful tool in the same time. It enumerates PE binary resources and counts languages used. Why? Normally you want single language of resources, however Visual Studio IDE does not show you languages in a convenient way and it is so easy to make a language mess which [...]
Posts Tagged ‘resource’
Enumerating Binary Resource Languages
Posted: 1st May 2012 by Roman in ATL, Source, UtilitiesTags: .rc, .res, C++, language, resource, utility, Windows API
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Resource Tools: Custom Resource Types
Posted: 30th April 2012 by Roman in Resource Tools, TechnologyTags: .rc, .res, automation, resource, tool, utility
This update for Resource Tools adds an option to access custom resource types, such as FILE, TYPELIB, REGISTRY etc. It lets enumerate the resource, and load/save them. The COM interafce adds new Items property; the code snippet below accesses type library of image2.dll and saves it into external tyle library file image2.tlb: image = new [...]
Resource Tools: 64-bit build
Posted: 30th August 2011 by Roman in Resource Tools, TechnologyTags: .rc, .res, automation, resource, tool, utility, x64
I rebuilt the Resource Tools utility in 64-bits to, supposedly, be able to be good with resources on 64-bit binaries (actually 32-bit code might be dealing with those fine also?). Anyway, the build is here and the tool available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. In particular, both 32-bit and 64-bit JavaScript scripts hosted by [...]
Utility Clearance: Export AVI Resources
Posted: 24th April 2011 by Roman in UtilitiesTags: animation, ATL, AVI, GUI, resource, Source, utility, Video
ExportAviResources walks through AVI video clips attached as resources to a binary file and exports them into separate files. Such clips can be used with Animation Controls for GUI animations. You might want to run the utility against SYSTEM32/SYSWOW64 folders to see if any of stock animations are good for you: D:\>for %i in (C:\Windows\system32\*.dll) [...]
Yet another time about FFDShow
Posted: 18th February 2009 by Roman in Technology, VideoTags: AVI, crap, ffdshow, resource, rle, shell, Video
While new NTFS Links propery page is looking for contained junction points, it shows an animated picture to indicate opertation in progress. The picture is a stock resource and is taken from shell32.dll resource type “AVI” name 150. It is an Audio Video Interleave (AVI) file embedded into binary resources as is. What is however [...]
Developer Goodies: ListResources to create an XML file from binary resources
Posted: 7th February 2009 by Roman in ATL, Source, UtilitiesTags: ATL, resource, utility, xml
At some point you might need to start paying special care for resources. Why? Perhaps there might be a number of reasons, I had to when I was dealing with first OEM versions of software and then internationalization. The whole idea is to let development team keep on working on regular version of software, in [...]