quote: Original post by Cecil

Excellent, Thank you very Much Mordell, it works like a charm now. I am curious as to if there a way to get around .RC files, to make menus, bitmaps etc into your Window Application programs? Again thanks

-Cecil

If you mean "is there a way to add menus, bitmaps, etc. outside of the .rc?" then the answer is yes. You can dynamically create menus in the code of your application, and then assign those menus to your window when you create it, although I don''t see why you wouldn''t want to use a .rc file for this. By using a resource file, you already have the menu loaded into memory...by dynamically creating it, you have to waste time that your code could be doing other junk. Besides, with Visual C++, you can create the menus (and dialog''s, etc.) VISUALLY, which I think is a lot easier (espically trying to lay out a dialog). Whatever floats your boat.

Oh, and with bitmaps, you CAN have them as seperate files on disk, and just load them that way. Again, whatever floats your boat.

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