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Originally posted by vikke
I'm not sure if Resource Hacker has the ability to add new resources
yes. Resource Hacker can even be controlled from the command line (it has its own scripting engine!) to extract, replace, remove, recompile resources, etc.... It is actually way more powerful than most people know. Read the help files closely
eg: Since Plus!3, I use a simple batch file to replace the Dutch language file in the setup (which is actually a compressed custom resource in the setup) with the one I'm busy with, to test the translation with the setup. Which is normally only done by sending Patchou the latest translation update and then waiting on a new beta release.... All with a few Resource Hacker command lines (and a compression program to (de)compress the resource).... Similary, I have some batch files which will replace some strings and menus in Messenger automatically (searching, replacing the correct parts, recompiling, replacing). All I need to do is start the batch file, et voila, done.
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As for Visual Studio, it is not so confusing actually...
"Visual Studio" contains "Visual C++", "Visual Basic", "Visual whatever". It is the whole lot plus some extras.... If you only need one programming language you need to get "Visual
<the program language you want>" Edition.
And there are several different editions for each package. For example, you have "Visual Studio Professional Edition", "Visual Studio Basic Edition", "Visual C++ Basic Edition", "Visual Basic Enterprise Edition", "Visual C# Express Edition", etc....
However, for making dialogs and menus, you don't need such a 40Mb per programming language download (and that's just the stripped down Express editions - Visual Studio Express Edition is even close to 1GB!).... All you need is
Resource Hacker and maybe a free resource compiler like
GoRC.
The possible added benefit for downloading Visual Studio Express is that you have a nice GUI though. But, according to wikipedia, it seems that Visual C++ Express Edition does
not include the resource compiler/editor.
Anyways, you can actually do everything from within Resource Hacker too (which will also show you how the dialog will look), since most of the time you're just going to edit existing Messenger dialogs anyways.
PS: Visual Studio Express Editions (which are free):
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
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