Question

Does anyone know a method other than string table to store strings in resource..
cause i would like to store only one or two string …and avoid string table as if i use FindResource() function it will load a whole block of strings

Answer 1

Store each string separately as a Binary resource. In this case you can load each string separately by its ID.

Code below will extract resource with “ResId” from “RES_SECTION”, where
RES_SECTION is custom section defined by user when resource is added, and
ResId is id of the resource.

HMODULE hModule     = NULL;
HGLOBAL hResource   = NULL;
HRSRC   hResInfo    = NULL;
LPVOID  tmpData     = NULL;
DWORD   tmpDataSize = 0;

/* find and get resource handle */
hResInfo = FindResource(hModule, MAKEINTRESOURCE(ResId), RES_SECTION);

/* loads resource into global memory. */
hResource = LoadResource(hModule, hResInfo);

/* get a pointer to the loaded resource */
tmpData = LockResource(hResource);

/* determine the size of the resource */
tmpDataSize = SizeofResource(hModule, hResInfo);

unsigned char * str = new unsigned char[tmpDataSize];

memcpy_s(str, tmpDataSize, tmpData, tmpDataSize);

Do not forget to add correct error handling for above function calls.