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<h1 align="center">Resource ID Organiser version 1.4</h1>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://www.resorg.co.uk">http://www.resorg.co.uk</a></p>
<p align="center"><br>
Copyright (c) 2000-2001 by Andy Metcalfe. All Rights Reserved</p>
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<h3>General</h3>
<p><br>
The Resource ID Organiser is an add-in for <b>Visual C++ 6.0</b> which is designed
to simplify the chore of maintaining the resource ID files used by the Visual
C++ Resource Editor to define symbols. It provides the following facilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>View the symbols in a given resource symbol file, including identifying
any symbols with duplicated values within that file</li>
<li>Renumber the symbols within a file</li>
<li>Add, edit or delete symbols. </li>
</ul>
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<p>Please use caution whilst using this application:</p>
<ul>
<li>Remember that renaming or removing symbols which are used in a resource
or implementation file will prevent your code from compiling.</li>
<li>Visual C++ can be too clever for its own good when it comes to determining
which files to rebuild, and frequently fails to spot changes to resource symbol
definitions. If all else fails, try cleaning the project and rebuilding.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Installation</h3>
<p>ResOrg comes in two flavours - an Application <b>(ResOrg.exe</b>) and a Visual
C++ Add-In (<b>ResOrgAddIn.dll</b>). The installation program will install both
versions into the selected directory (<i>C:\Program Files\ArryTheDog Software\ResOrg</i>
by default).</p>
<p>When the ResOrg application is started it will, by default, check whether Visual
Studio is configured to load the add-in, and if necessary re-configure it to
do so.</p>
<p>If the ResOrg application is not configured to do this (or unable to for any
reason), you will need to do the following to use the Add-In version:</p>
<ol>
<li>Start Visual C++, and Select the "Customize" command on the "<b>Tools</b>"
Menu</li>
<li> Select the "<b>Add-ins and Macro Files</b>" tab on the "<b>Customize</b>"
property sheet</li>
<li> If the "<b>Resource ID Organiser</b>" entry appears in the "<b>Add-ins
and macro files</b>" control, make sure the check box next to it is ticked</li>
<li> Otherwise, press the "<b>Browse</b>" button and navigate to the directory
the files were installed in. Select the file "<b>ResOrgAddIn.dll</b>", press
"<b>OK</b>" and when the entry appears in the control, check the box next
to it.</li>
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<h3 align="left">System Dependencies</h3>
<p align="left">In order to function correctly, ResOrg may require several system
DLLs to be installed:</p>
<ul>
<li>ComCtl32.dll version 5.80</li>
<li>Shlwapi.dll version 4.71</li>
<li>Mfc42.dll version 6.00.8665.0</li>
<li>Msvrt.dll version 6.00.8797.0</li>
</ul>
<p>Appropriate versions of Mfc42.dll and Msvcrt.dll are included in the ResOrg
installer. Although these are system components, and thus cannot be installed
by the installer on a platform which has System File Protection, the Windows
platforms which have this capability (Windows Me and 2000 at the time of writing)
have appropriate versions installed already.</p>
<p><b>ComCtl32.dll </b>must be installed via a Microsoft supplied installer (50comupd.exe)
which is available from the ResOrg website if you need it. ResOrg will check
the version of comctl32.dll upon start-up, and inform you if an update is necessary.</p>
<p>An appropriate version of <b>Shlwapi.dll</b> is included with Windows 98, NT
4.0 or later versions of Windows. If ResOrg is to be installed on a Windows
95 system which does not have this file, it can be installed by installing Internet
Explorer 4 or later.</p>
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<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you have any problems, bug reports or suggestions, please email them to
me (<a href="mailto:andy.metcalfe@lineone.net">andy.metcalfe@lineone.net</a>).
Work permitting, I will endeavour to provide bug fixes and other support as
quickly as possible.</p>
<p>Since I try to produce updates as often as I reasonably can, please visit the
ResOrg website (<a href="http://www.resorg.co.uk">http://www.resorg.co.uk</a>)
for the latest information before contacting me with a bug report. You may find
that the bug you're about to report has already been fixed!</p>
<p>Finally, I hope you find ResOrg useful. Some days, I wonder how I ever managed
without it...</p>
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<p align="center">Andy Metcalfe</p>
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I haven't always written software for a living. When I graduated from Surrey University in 1989, it was with an Electronic Engineering degree, but unfortunately that never really gave me the opportunity to do anything particularly interesting (with the possible exception of designing
Darth Vader's Codpiece * for the UK Army in 1990).
* Also known as the Standard Army Bootswitch. But that's another story...
Since the opportunity arose to lead a software team developing C++ software for
Avionic Test Systems in 1996, I've not looked back. More recently I've been involved in the development of subsea acoustic navigation systems, digital TV broadcast systems, port security/tracking systems, and most recently software development tools with my own company,
Riverblade Ltd.
One of my personal specialities is IDE plug-in development.
ResOrg was my first attempt at a plug-in, but my day to day work is with
Visual Lint, an interactive code analysis tool environment with works within the Visual Studio and Eclipse IDEs or on build servers.
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