ResViewer

ResViewer The ResViewer program allows one to see the resources that embedded Within a DLL or EXE file. The app is an SDI app with Splitter windows Where the left window is a tree control and the right is a View. The program was tested on WIN/NT 4.0. Written with MS/VC++ 5.0

When a file is opened the tree control is set up with the RT_BITMAP, RT_ICON,RT_CURSOR and RT_DIALOG groups. The groups can then be expanded to see each resource within that group. When any of the resources are clicked they are displayed in the view.

Once a resource is selected the file save as option from the menu can be used to save the resource To disk. Since the RT_ICON resources are used instead of GROUP ICON. Each ICON is saved As a separate file. To use them as an application icon you must save both the 16X16 and 32x32. The MSVC resource editor can then be used to combine both into a group icon.

The dialogs are saved as .dlg files. The files contain the resource script code to be used in a .RC File. I did the best I could to make it compatible with the resource editor in MS VC but there Are no guarentees here. I tested using a lot of different dialogs and they seemed to work ok. Dialogs that contain external controls cannot be displayed but they can be saved.

There are a zillion resource viewers available on the net. So. Whats difference? Well, you have the source and can see how its done.

Since this program uses the PERsrc classes as seen in MSJ from Matt Pietrek, the program Can easily be entended to support all resource types.

My DlgData class is used to parse the DLGTEMPLATE and DLGTEMPLATEX Structures and to write the .dlg file.

The program was written and tested with MSVC 5.0.

Reference materials:

Matt Pietreks PERsrc Classes. http://www.microsoft.com/msj
See the back issues for Jan 1998. The dlgdump program was used as a basis for the DlgData class. The PERsrc class was used for creating the tree control.

Jeff Prosise Programming Windows 95 with MFC.
The Wanderer sample program was used as the basis for the Explorer like splitter window and tree control.

MSs ICONPRO program was used to see how bitmaps And icons resources are processed. This program is available In source at
http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev.

MSs IMAGEEDIT program was also used to see how Bitmaps icons and cursors are formatted and displayed. The program is avalable in source from the SDK Jan 1998 And can be downloaded as part of the TOOLS.

The CodeGuru website contains a section on converting Bitmaps from DIB to DDB. These were helpful since bitmaps are stored in resources as DDB and must be converted before they can be displayed.
See http://www.codeguru.com

Last updated: 4 May 1998