Hello James!

18 Jul 96 18:09, James Laine wrote to All:

 JL> I now want to start adding resources.  I checked the Watcom C/C++
 JL> v10.6 help files, and came across OS/2 resource compiler
 JL> statement and keywords. One example was similar to the following

Wow!  You mean 10.6 actually includes OS/2 programming documentation?  What a
novelty!  Or, are you referring to the OS/2 2.0 Toolkit online docs?

#include "app.h"

 JL> MENU MAIN PRELOAD
 JL> BEGIN
 JL>     MENUITEM "One", 100
 JL>     SUBMENU "Two...", 101
 JL>     BEGIN
 JL>         MENUITEM "2.5", 200
 JL>         MENUITEM "2.7", 201
 JL>     END
 JL> END

/*
 * File:  App.H
*/
#define MAIN 300

 JL> 1stpmapp.rc(3) RC: error - String not allowed for resource ID
 JL> 'MEN'. RC: 1 error(s) detected

This is because you never told the resource compiler what value to assign to
the constant 'MAIN'.

Daniel

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