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.
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