Question

In our app we have resource strings that are apparently too long for the compiler. The build breaks stating the ‘line length is too long.’ I have found little information about the topic of lengthy string resources and even had a difficult time finding what the limit on such a resource string is. Eventually I found this article which gives the limit: MSDN .

Have you had any expierence with limits on string resources?
Is there some way to concatonate these without doing any coding?

Any other suggestions would be greatly appriecated.

Answer 1

I would have a look at RCDATA resources. I used it to store large text files in my application.

Edit: Here is my MFC code, it should be able to give you some pointers.

CString CWSApplication::LoadTextResource(UINT nID) {     HRSRC hResInfo;     HGLOBAL hResData;     hResInfo = ::FindResource(AfxGetResourceHandle(),                               MAKEINTRESOURCE(nID),                               RT_RCDATA);      if ( hResInfo == NULL )     {         return CString();     }      hResData = ::LoadResource(NULL, hResInfo);      if ( hResData == NULL )     {         return CString();     }      char *data = (char*)(::LockResource(hResData));     DWORD len = ::SizeofResource(NULL, hResInfo);     return CString(data, len); }