I'm writing my win32 apps from scratch based on the DIB.asm example i found on this forum. But i don't know how i can define resources from scratch. Can anybody help me?

You could first check the fasm manual, and second look at some of the examples included with fasmw

i've looked. all the examples use the macros which i dont want to do.

You can look at the source for the macros if you understand the fasm macro system. I also think i vaguely remember the old win32.hlp api documentation containing information about the binary res format.

i dont understand the macro system that well at the moment.

can anyone provide any examples?

Donkey coded an app that extracts resources from the binary file. You can find it at http://www.assembler.ca/res2dlg.htm

look it up on MSDN.

Example: http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?siteId=0&tab=0&query=DLGTEMPLATE

from: http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html