res files

I'm planning to write a class which provides extended loadres* functions. Besides being able to load jpeg files it will also be able to read from an resfile located outside the exefile(this will be very practical).

I'm asking you if you have/know any good code/example code regarding reading and maneovre windows resource files. Is there any windows Api available for this kind of operations?


_Any_ suggestions/comments are gladly appreciated.

Best regards,
Cyth
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I would suggest you try http://msdn.microsoft.com/

I found some pretty nifty stuff on MSDN.

Luck...

What you were saying is that you are going to make functions that will load the .res file of other .exe/.dll/.ocx files? If so good luck, and if you found out how to do it, please please please post it somewhere where I can find it, because it is indeed very practical. I'm only able to load images and icons from another executable.

I found some really good documentation on the win32 res format at www.wotsit.org. Generally, it's all about opening the res file and manually go trough it. I really have no idea how the performance will be though..

If you could post the code for loading images/icons from another exe I would really appreciate it.

regards,
Cyth