There is some other constraints too which are needed in the res file. I will
give you mine here as an example:
;filename whatever.rc
click wave preload fixed pure "Utopia Close.wav"
;note the above type for wave file
opro wave preload fixed pure "openpro.wav"
CReg wave preload fixed pure "ShareMsg.wav"
Novideo ICON Novideo.ico
;note the above type for icon file
Video ICON Video.ico
alpic bitmap "al.bmp"
;note the above type for picture file, type jpg
Now follows an example of how to get all of this into your soft - excuse the
code; it is cut and paste out of myapp:
procedure TCamForm.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var
h: Thandle;
ClickS, ClickB, opro, handsome: pointer;
begin
h := FindResource(hInstance, pchar('CLICK'), 'WAVE');
h := LoadResource(hInstance, h);
clickS := LockResource(h);
h := FindResource(hInstance, pchar('opro'), 'WAVE');
h := LoadResource(hInstance, h);
opro := LockResource(h);
h := FindResource(hInstance, pchar('Creg'), 'WAVE');
h := LoadResource(hInstance, h);
creg := LockResource(h);
h:= FindResource(hInstance, pchar('alpic'), 'RT_BITMAP');
h := LoadResource(hInstance, h);
handsome:= LockResource(h);
// here follows eg how to use:
sndPlaySound(clickS, SND_MEMORY or SND_ASYNC); //gotta do a dinky sound
Now depending on your use of 'handsome' you may need to preface it with a
bitmap file info header. Personally, I dont like using bitmaps as they will
take up a fairly large chunk of filesize. Much more efficient is to include
JPEG resource as file and load that.
Why I say this, is I have been down the same track and doing it the latter
way is better.
Or to make it easy and allow bitmap compression (the installation program)
you could use the bitmaps externally and bitmap.loadfromfile.
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