Using TextPad with RC files

[Peter Wone]

Borland supplies a command line resource compiler BRCC32.EXE with Delphi and C++Builder.

RC files are just text files, so TextPad is ideal for preparing them. You can install BRCC32 in the Tools menu and use TextPad as a resource workshop. These were the settings on my system:

Command:

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C:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi7\Bin\brcc32.exe

Parameters:

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$File 

Initial folder:

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$FileDir 

Regular expression to match output:

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Error \([^ ]+\) \([0-9]+\) \([0-9]+\).*

Here's a sample RC file (I named it TEST.RC). Note that the resource IDs are implicit and ordinal.

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#define B24B	BANG24BIT
#define B8B	BANG8BIT
#define WINDOWMOVE_CURSOR_3D_GOLD "C:\WINNT\Cursors\3dgmove.cur"

B8B BITMAP "bang-8bit.bmp"
B24B BITMAP "bang-24bit.bmp"

MOVE_CURSOR WINDOWMOVE_CURSOR_3D_GOLD

The captured output looks like this when I leave out the end quote on line 5:

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Borland Resource Compiler  Version 5.40
Copyright (c) 1990, 1999 Inprise Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Error TEST.RC 5 25: Unterminated string or hexstring constant

Tool completed with exit code 20018

[jeffy]

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