How can I include resource files in my final executable and be able to use them with the windows api? (LoadResource, FindResource etc)

Thanks

Have you checked this? http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=win32#1.6

Note that the minipad example (included in fasm for windows package) includes an icon from file.

Also, in http://flatassembler.net/examples.php the Quetannon example includes a bitmap inside the executable.

There are probably more examples in this forum, but can't search them now.

I don't know anything about resource files, but a forum search of "resource AND file"(w/o quotation marks) looks promising.

Hi guys! Sorry for the trouble...here's what I found working:



where myRes.res is a resource i compiled with windres.

thanks!

No trouble.

I'd tried to learn to write resource files before, but they got irritating and I don't do GUI anyway, so I gave up. I'll look into "windres", is it free(as in beer) or open source?

you can try to use ResEdit or ResEd to build rc-files in GUI, WinAsm Studio or RadAsm with embedded resource editing (ResEd is part of RadAsm), and use rc->fasm converters: this for ResEd and this for WinAsm Studio and ResEdit - the last converter converts only dialogs (i see no great sense in creation string resources in GUI editor, as well as writing then large code to process them). all these tools are free, ResEdit requires PSDK or Visual Studio installed (uses its includes)

regards!