Question

I have a .rc file which is used to include some text data in my executable, like this:

1234 RCDATA myfile.txt 

This works fine: the content of the ‘myfile.txt’ is included in my executable. The problem is that no 0-terminator is added to the string, and I cannot add it to the file. Is there any way of adding a 0-terminator from within the .rc file? Something like this:

1234 RCDATA { myfile.txt, '\0' }         // error RC2104 

Note that I already found this solution, but I am looking for something more elegant.

1234 RCDATA myfile.txt 1235 RCDATA { '\0' } 

Thanks alot, eli

Answer 1

I don’t think so, unless you write your own resource compiler.
I have not meet one which allowed to build one resource from several sources.
You may write a small utility to add a trailing ‘\0’ to a file, say makeZ.exe,
and set an additional build step:

makeZ myfile.txt myfileZ.txt 

In you .rc there will be

 1234 RCDATA myfileZ.txt