What is a Resource File?

A resource file may contain a collection of icons, menus, dialog boxes, strings tables, user-defined binary data and other types of items.

Once compiled into a suitable format, a resource file can be embedded directly into an executable or DLL file, producing a single EXE or DLL containing both code and resources.  At run-time, the application can use the resource items in the embedded file.  The process of creating a resource is straightforward, and is similar to compiling a PowerBASIC program.

The following sections describe the (manual) techniques involved in compiling resource scripts into a usable format, and describe the Resource Script.

 

See Also

Resource Editors

Resource Compiling

Resource Scripts

Dialog Resources

Converting a .DLG to a .RC  

Converting a .RC to a .RES

Converting a .RES to a .PBR