Using Windows resources
- The resource directive $RUnder Windowsand Linux(or any platform using ELF binaries) 12 , you can include resources in your executable or library using the {$R filename} directive. These
- Creating resourcesThe Free Pascalcompiler itself doesn’t create any resource files; it just compiles them into the executable. To create resource files, you can use some GUI to
- Using string tables.String tables can be used to store and retrieve large collections of strings in your application. A string table looks as follows: STRINGTABLE { 1, "hello World
- Inserting version informationThe win32 API allows the storing of version information in your binaries. This information can be made visible with the WindowsExplorer, by right-clicking on th
- Inserting an application iconWhen Windowsshows an executable in the Explorer, it looks for an icon in the executable to show in front of the filename, the application icon. Inserting an app
- Using a Pascal preprocessorSometimes you want to use symbolic names in your resource file, and use the same names in your program to access the resources. To accomplish this, there exists
An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.
