Windres doesn't provide very sensible error messages, this bothers me so I've been looking into it.
I have two questions. 1. From the documentation I see on MSDN, the snippet below doesn't appear to be valid. The LTEXT line ends with a comma, which indicates that a style should follow. But it doesn't. Look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa381021.aspx for a description, the syntax is : LTEXT text, id, x, y, width, height [[, style [[, extended-style]]]] Effectively, the arm-wince-cegcc-windres fails to compile this line, but it accepts it when the comma at the end of the line is removed. Question : this is based on one of the examples in the Boling book, which is from Microsoft Press. Is the example wrong ? SMSTalk_PPC DIALOG discardable 25, 5, 120, 98 STYLE WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_VISIBLE | WS_SYSMENU | DS_MODALFRAME CAPTION "SMS Talk" FONT 8, "System" BEGIN LTEXT "Received Messages", -1, 4, 4, 128, 10, LISTBOX IDD_MSGLIST, 4, 14, 128, 48, WS_TABSTOP END 2. Windres calls the C preprocessor to deal with macros. This is a sensible thing to do because they appear to follow the C syntax. However, this makes it hard to produce sensible error messages. Consider an input such as this : ID_MENU_SP RCDATA MOVEABLE PURE BEGIN ID_MENU_SP, 2, I_IMAGENONE, IDOK, TBSTATE_ENABLED, TBSTYLE_BUTTON | TBSTYLE_AUTOSIZE, IDS_EXIT, 0, NOMENU, I_IMAGENONE, IDPOP, TBSTATE_ENABLED, TBSTYLE_DROPDOWN | TBSTYLE_AUTOSIZE, IDS_MENU, 0, 0, END The C preprocessor turns it into this : 100 RCDATA MOVEABLE PURE BEGIN 100, 2, (-2), 1, 4, 0 | 16, 401, 0, NOMENU, (-2), 208, 4, 8 | 16, 402, 0, 0, END Error messages will describe stuff in the latter format which is unknown and therefore incomprehensible to the programmer. Not good. However, the syntax allowed appears to be a manageable subset of the C syntax. Would it be a silly idea to implement that limited subset in windres so it becomes independent of the C preprocessor and can write better error messages ? Does anyone have a better idea? Thanks, Danny -- Danny Backx ; danny.backx - at - scarlet.be ; http://danny.backx.info
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