handling resource files

[Colin Caughie]

> I really like this idea. Sadly, I don't think it will work because
> the
> resource.h file that contains all the id definitions is created and
> modified by Visual Studio (add a control to a dialog, a new id is
> allocated).
>
> I like the idea, so I'm thinking about a step that takes the VS
> generated resource.h file and renumbers it, but that's getting close
> to
> my threshold of too kludgy.
>
> I'm actually surprised that this doesn't seem to be much of a
> problem.
> Either that, or I'm not searching on the right terms.

Visual Studio resource files are a version control nightmare, there's no getting around it. Our biggest gripe is the way VS 2005 rewrites the string tables in a different order when you edit something completely unrelated; if this happens when there are multiple branches (which there almost always are in our team) the next merge is going to be a major headache.

It's bad enough that I've considered writing a custom merge tool just to merge resource files. If I ever do I'll let you know. :)

Colin


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