generated by MSDEV 4.2

fasm says invalid file format, so what im missing?



long story short, i accidentally deleted the template that i hardcoded.
it was a frame-based win32 gui code, i.e. everything is made by calling CreateWindowEx.

my template had over 2500 lines, many controls were implemented

so i dont wanna write everything from scratch, instead i want to use MSDEV 4.2 to generate dialog resource for faster development.

there are many solutions: reconvert rc
https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=5629
or compile dummy exe(or dll) and extract resources this way
https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=96895
(whole resource section it is completely portable part, in topic grabbed particular resources, but grabbing whole resources is much simpler)

The error here is that resource needs to first be compiled to be linked this way. Use a resource compiler to compile .RC into .RES file.

thank you prominick good program actually, converters are always welcome.

thank you tomasz thats indeed what i wanted, compiled with RC /r filename.rc and it works perfectly.

at least using this i can forget about my deleted template (for short time only) and focus on rapid app dev. RAD

Might I suggest that you put on hold any development just yet. A higher priority is to get a backup system working.

What would happen if your HDD/SSD crashed right now? Would you still be good to go again in a few hours?

thanks for the reminder rev, yes i think i have to backup because lost many other files as well mostly re-producible data and few small utilities i made which i dont care much about except my template win32 code.

my system on M.2 SSD, and every backup resides in HDD.
so yes i need to back, and i barely do that. thanks again.