---------------------------------------------- Resource Hacker� - Version 3.4.0 24 march 2002. Copyright 1999-2002 Angus Johnson http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker email: ajohnson@rpi.net.au FREEWARE utility to view, modify, add, rename and delete resources in Win32 executables and resource files. Incorporates an internal resource compiler and decompiler. Works on Win9x, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP. ---------------------------------------------- Version History: ---------------------------------------------- 24 March 2002 (Version 3.4.0): * 32bit Resource Files (*.res) can now also be viewed and edited. * Added support for the following Dialog extended style flags: WS_EX_LAYERED, WS_EX_NOINHERITLAYOUT, WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL and WS_EX_NOACTIVATE. * All resource language ids (except those for cursors and icons) can now be easily changed. * Bug Fix: LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT and LBS_MULTICOLUMN listbox style flags in dialogs previously could not be combined. 14 January 2002 (Version 3.3.4): * Bug fix: Occasional error when trying to compile large plain text resources. * Bug fix: Occasional error (introduced in the previous update) when replacing icons. 6 January 2002 (Version 3.3.3): * Searching has been speeded up dramatically. * Numerous other minor improvements. 23 December 2001 (Version 3.3.2): * Bug fix: Export tables were being corrupted when modifying Dlls compiled with LCC-Win32. * Bug fix: Minor resource leak plugged. * Bug fix: Progressbar styles PBS_SMOOTH and PBS_VERTICAL in resource Dialogs were not being decompiled. 7 December 2001 (Version 3.3.1): * Resources can now be renamed either via the popup menu of the treeview control or via the main menu (once the specific resource has been selected in the treeview control). * Numerous other minor improvements and bug fixes. 29 October 2001 (Version 3.2.10): * Bug fix: Resource Hacker� caused an "access violation" occasionally when trying to open 16bit executables (which aren't supported). * Bug fix: Occasional errors occured when decompiling messagetables and accelerators. * Bug fix: Closing Resource Hacker� was delayed due to Windows caching *.ini updates. This made running RH scripts within batch files difficult. 7 August 2001 (Version 3.2.9): * Bug fix: Resource Hacker� will now display and edit resources stored in sections other than the '.rsrc' section. * Bug fix: When closing Resource Hacker� a delayed closure of a mutex handle made running RH scripts within batch files difficult. * Bug fix: Another commandline bug fixed. * Several minor functional improvements. 16 June 2001 (Version 3.2.8): * When editing dialog controls and the Editor has focus, the control corresponding to the current insertion point (if any) will be highlighted automatically in the dialog preview. * When resources cannot be viewed due to non-standard resource layouts (eg when an "EXE compressor" has been used to shrink the file), a message to this effect will now be displayed. * Individual resource items' size will now be displayed in the statusbar. * Bug fix: Commandline support was partially broken in a previous update. * Bug fix: Should now run on Win95 machines which still have the original ComCtl32.dll. * Bug fix: Should now run on Win95 and Win98 machines which do not have ImageHlp.dll installed. (ImageHlp.dll is included on the Win98 install CD and is installed automatically with Internet Explorer 3 or greater.) 8 April 2001 (Version 3.2.7): * DS_SETFONT is no longer decompiled into the STYLE statement of Dialog resources to avoid problems when recompiling scripts using Microsoft's resource compiler. * Extended Dialog FONT definitions (font weight, italics etc) are no longer displayed in decompiled scripts unless they have been changed to non-default values. This avoids problems when trying to recompile these scripts with both MS's and Borland's resource compilers which still do not support full font definitions for Dialogs. * Bug fix: Occasional error when saving non-standard resource types to *.res files. 10 March 2001 (Version 3.2.6): * Resources can now be added to executables which previously did not contain resources. * Bug fix (introduced in the last update): Unicode to multibyte character conversion was causing problems with some non-English resources. 3 March 2001 (Version 3.2.5): * Enhanced the Dialog Editor's functionality when adding new controls. * The line number of Editor's insertion point is now displayed on the left of the statusbar. * The Menu Preview is now able to display popup menus which don't have a caption. * Bug fix (introduced in the previous update): Dialogs displaying bitmaps would no longer always display the correct size of the bitmap. * Other minor improvements. 20 February 2001 (Version 3.2.4): * A Dialog Editor has been added and can be activated by right clicking on a Dialog Preview. * Plain text resources can now be modified and recompiled using the internal editor. * Bug-fix: Dialog scripts were not being displayed if either the dialog width or dialog height equalled zero. * Bug-fix: Occasionally a valid menu script would raise an error when compiling. * Bug-fix: StringTable entries with more than 50 special characters (\t,\n etc) could not be viewed and raised an error. 28 January 2001 (Version 3.2.3): * The Dialog Preview/Designer is now detached from the main window. * Whenever a control is selected in the Dialog Designer, its definition in the script will also be flagged with a red marker. * Several minor bug fixes. 14 January 2001 (Version 3.2.2): * Programs which are modified will now have their CheckSums updated too. * Combobox controls in the preview dialog now have resizing handles which reflect the size of its dropdown window (ie consistent with the dialog script). * A control can now be deleted by using the DEL key once it has been selected in a preview dialog. * Bug fix: Resource Hacker� crashed when Alt+C was pressed when the Preview Dialog had focus. 9 January 2001 (Version 3.2.1): * Numerous bug fixes: - STRINGTABLE with StringID = 0 will now compile; - ACCELETATOR recompile bug fixed. - Old style bitmaps will now be displayed; - A maximised state will be retained between sessions; - Alt+C will now compile when Preview Dialog has focus; - Text ending with doubleslashes (eg: "bug\\") will compile; - DIALOG scripts containing MENU or CLASS statements would occasionally raise an error on compiling. - FONT statement in DIALOGEX scripts now fully supports FontWeight, Italic and FontCharset parameters. - Several other minor bug fixes/cosmetic improvements. 1 January 2001 (Version 3.1): * Most-Recently-Used file list added to File menu. * Bug fix: Unusual characters in filenames would not be correctly read by the commandline script parser. * Visual redesign tool for dialogs improved. * Warned dialog added whenever leaving a resource which has been modified but not recompiled. * Edit menu added. * Images can now be copied to the clipboard. * User defined resources containing just plain text will now be displayed as text, not as binary data. 12 December 2000 (Version 3.0): * Resource items can now be added from files of any binary type, no longer needing to compile them into *.res files first. This includes, but is not restricted to image files (*.ico, *.cur, *.bmp). * Commandline Scripting added. All the functionality of Resource Hacker� (apart from viewing resources) can now be accessed from the commandline without having to open Resource Hacker�. * Added Any File (*.*) option to Open File Dialog File types (no longer limited to exe, dll, ocx and cpl files). However, the file must still be a Win32 PE format file. * Save As Dialog now warns users attempting to save resources to non-existant directories. * Bug fix: MSVC++ debug table offsets were not being updated when resources were modified. * VersionInfo resources can now be modified etc. * Numerous other minor improvements. 1 November 2000 (Version 2.6): * Text search added - find resource items containing text compiled in both ANSI and UNICODE formats. * "File Save" menu option added. The original file is backed up if a backup copy does not already exist. (eg: MyProgram.exe will be copied to MyProgram_original.exe, unless it already exists, before being modified.) * Bug Fix: VersionInfo resources would occasionally not decompile correctly. 10 September 2000 (Version 2.5): * Resources can now be deleted. (nb: VersionInfo resources cannot be deleted). * Bug Fix: Modified applications occasionally displayed the generic executable icon, not the application's icon. * Fixes to a couple of other minor bugs. 18 August 2000 (Version 2.4.0.4): * Bug Fix: Would not compile some Chinese text. * Improved translation support. Scripts are now compiled using the codepage appropriate to the internal editor's selected font rather than the operating system's default codepage. (Thanks to Frank Cheng for feedback while fixing both these DBCS issues.) * Bug fix: Occasionally StringTable resources would not be decompiled. * Bug fix: Accelerators would not compile if they included the ASCII keyword. * The command line wi...
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