Using resources in your application

[Fromethius]

How come, whenever I use a resource, I have to define it as an integral and call the integer's value to use it?

For example, I have this:

CONTROL "",IDC_COMBOBOX,"ComboBox",0x50010003,8,90,62,111

Then I define it like this:

#define IDC_COMBOBOX 30000

I can use this in my main.cpp like this:

MAKEINTRESOURCE(30000)

But when I go like this:

IDC_COMBOBOX

It says:

'IDC_COMBOBOX' undeclared (first use this function)

Some help would be great. I don't like using MAKEINTRESOURCE and then using the integral definition because it confuses me.

[Notsosuperhero]

Are you including the file where IDC_COMBO is defined?

Are you using Visual Studios resource editor or writing it by hand?