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Started by PaulEdwards April 15, 2006 09:55 PM

7 comments, last by PaulEdwards 18 years ago

PaulEdwards

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April 15, 2006 09:55 PM

I have a console C++ application in MS Visual C++ 2005 Exress and I'd like to add an icon resource to it. The Project->Add Resources menu item is greyed out though. Does anyone know why this is and how I can add my icon?

Andrew

vrok137

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April 18, 2006 07:29 AM

You cannot edit Resource files using the Express Editions. Unfortunatley, you can only do so with the Standard, Professional, etc. editions.

Yea, I know.... it sucks.

Machaira

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April 18, 2006 08:39 AM

< sarcasm >
Yeah, MS should have given the full functionality of the Pro version in the Express version!
< /sarcasm >

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PaulEdwards

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April 22, 2006 06:19 PM

Okay thanks, I wasn't sure if that was the case or not.

Andrew

Rob Loach

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April 22, 2006 07:18 PM

You could use SharpDevelop.

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PaulEdwards

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April 22, 2006 11:35 PM

Thanks for the suggestion and I checked it out, but the situation is that I already have a project written in C++ and all I'd like to do is add a resource (an icon) to it. SharpDevelop seems to only support C# and VB and expectedly didn't seem to work out when I tried to open up and modify my C++ project.

So am I doing something wrong with SharpDevelop or are there any other ways of simply adding a single icon resource to a project?

Andrew

Machaira

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April 23, 2006 09:20 AM

Hmm, no problem adding resources to a VB.NET project. Maybe it's a quirk of C++ EE?

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thannett

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April 23, 2006 09:30 AM

Why don't you just open your .rc file and add the code to that manually? My app has the following code for an icon:

1 ICON "app.ico"

EDIT: This may be helpful.
EDIT2: If your project is using a .resx instead of a .rc you might look using Resourcer.

PaulEdwards

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April 23, 2006 12:10 PM

thannett, thanks, that was certainly all that it needed. I haven't worked much with Windows resources and didn't really know how all the pieces fit together (just that I needed the icon added as a resource to my project).

So anyway, problem solved, thanks to all who replied!

Andrew

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