Using Resources

Resources are an important part of programming using the Windows GUI (Grapical User Interface). Unless you only write console (text-only) programs you will probably end up creating and using a few resources. The following pages cover creating resources of several types and using them in your programs.

• Introducing Resources
• Creating and Using Resource Scripts
• Menus
• Keyboard Accelerators
• Dialogs
• Icons
• Cursors
• Bitmaps
• Strings
• User Data

The syntax for resource scripts is also available on the Web at Microsoft's site.