OpenEuphoria

Re: Translator Request

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Mar 17, 2006
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Robert Craig wrote:

> Greg Haberek wrote:
>
>> Now I don't make a whole lot of random "feature requests" but I feel
>> my input in this case may help others. These requests apply to ecw, as
>> they are Windows-only features.
>>
>> 1) A -xp option. This would automatically add the XP Manifest file as
>> a linked resource so translated apps appear properly in Windows XP.
>> I've done this manually several times before and could assist if
>> needed.
>>
>> 2) A -icon option. This would add an icon file as a resource in the
>> executable. I believe there is a feature like this for the binder. I
>> could be wrong, as I've never used the binder. This is a pretty
>> standard thing to do, I doubt it'd be very difficult.
> 
> Yes, you can do that with the Binder. Someone else also
> asked for that capability to be added to the Translator.
> 
>> This way, when I make an app for Windows (as I almost always do) I
>> could do the following and end up with a professional looking
>> executable:
>>
>> ecw myapp.exw -xp -icon myapp.ico

I think it's much more powerful and flexible to make it possible to link
*arbitrary* resources. So I'd like to suggest something like this:
   ecw -rc myapp.rc myapp.exw

For linking an icon, the file "myapp.rc" just could contain the line
   myapp ICON myapp.ico

> If you can post examples of what you've done it would
> save me some research time and increase the chance
> that I'll get around to implementing those features.

Please look at my contribution "ecwr.zip". 

> I'm still putting together a list of features for 3.0 alpha.
> I should have something in a day or so.

Oh, that's nice. Thanks.

Regards,
   Juergen

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