Dialogresources on WinNT

Dialogresources on WinNT

[Alfred Hilscher]

Hi,

when I've tried to write a little GUI on Windows NT, I've encountered a
problem. I've written some dialogtemplates, put them in one resource
file (*.rc) and compiled it with the resource compiler (rc.exe). In my
program I call the api-function "DialogBox" twice, once for the first
dialog and (later) again for the second. With the Aonix compiler it
worked well. So I converted the resource (res2coff.exe) for GNAT, by
only one dialog works. When trying to load the otherone the api always
returns errorcode "-1". Any idea what I did wrong ?

Re: Dialogresources on WinNT

[Pascal Obry]

Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> when I've tried to write a little GUI on Windows NT, I've encountered a
> problem. I've written some dialogtemplates, put them in one resource
> file (*.rc) and compiled it with the resource compiler (rc.exe). In my
> program I call the api-function "DialogBox" twice, once for the first
> dialog and (later) again for the second. With the Aonix compiler it
> worked well. So I converted the resource (res2coff.exe) for GNAT, by
> only one dialog works. When trying to load the otherone the api always
> returns errorcode "-1". Any idea what I did wrong ?

You should try using windres instead of rc+res2coff.

Pascal.

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Re: Dialogresources on WinNT

[David Botton]

Use windres instead. You can grab a copy off the GWindows page,
http://www.adapower.com/gwindows

David Botton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfred Hilscher" <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>


> Hi,
>
> when I've tried to write a little GUI on Windows NT, I've encountered a
> problem. I've written some dialogtemplates, put them in one resource
> file (*.rc) and compiled it with the resource compiler (rc.exe). In my
> program I call the api-function "DialogBox" twice, once for the first
> dialog and (later) again for the second. With the Aonix compiler it
> worked well. So I converted the resource (res2coff.exe) for GNAT, by
> only one dialog works. When trying to load the otherone the api always
> returns errorcode "-1". Any idea what I did wrong ?

Re: Dialogresources on WinNT

[tmoran]

> So I converted the resource (res2coff.exe) for GNAT, by
  The Claw instructions for Gnat (www.rrsoftware.com) have long
suggested using cvtres to go .res -> .obj, then rename .obj -> .rbj
(to avoid confusion) and then append the .rbj to the gnatmake command.
  I'd be interested if Gnat has come out with a working, simpler, way.

Re: Dialogresources on WinNT

[David Botton]

Windres -> .RC file to .rbj file in one shot.

David Botton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tmoran@bix.com>
>   I'd be interested if Gnat has come out with a working, simpler, way.

Re: Dialogresources on WinNT

[Alfred Hilscher]

Many thanks to all of you. I've tried windres and it works fine.