Re: 16 bit Resource editor needed ...

de Roger Hunt 06/25/2006 05:42

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson typed this :
>On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:01:35 +0100, Roger Hunt wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a 16 bit resource editor, something like Exescope but
>> free. (I am familiar and happy with the likes of Resource Hacker and XN
>> Resource Editor but they only handle 32bit executables.)
>
>First, you should have a look at all programming languages installed.
>One may contain a resource editor capable of handling Win16 resources.
>While MS Visual Studio generally has a good resource editor embedded,
>the free Express Edition is said to be delivered without it. So you
>need not bother to install that one just to try. (If someone has the
>EE installed: Please correct, if that statement is wrong!)
>
>If you don't find another, you need to do a *huge* download to just
>get a suitable tool. - The OpenWatcom packages contains a resource
>editor which is able to edit Win16 resources:
>
> http://www.openwatcom.org/ftp
>
>Get either of the C/C++ and the Fortran packages. Although the Fortran
>package is smaller, you still may prefer the C/C++ package, if you
>consider a bit programming in C/C++... ;-)
>
>Unfortunately, all "smaller" solutions I know of (which are actually
>able to *edit* Win16 resources) are non-free.
>
Thanks for the info! I do not mind a huge download - I am on dial-up but
my local library has excellent facilities and is free (enabling the
recent download of over 5GB of textures for Celestia).
Also, I did a tiny bit of programming not so long ago with Borland C++
so it shouldn't be too much of a learning curve to investigate this
further.

Regards
--
Roger Hunt