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 symbols

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

• Import a Visual Basic form

• See tips for using the dialog editor effectively in Visual C++

Graphics Editor Topics

• Create or edit icons and cursors

Menu Editor Topics

• 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++