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[SKAN]

ROD-Ex is a script that demonstrates automation of


• Adding resources to AutoHotkeySC.bin
  
• Creating a Resource only DLL from scratch


As of now, the script handles ICON and BITMAP resources. The rest may be absorbed into as RCDATA :

Create a subfolder named Resource in your project folder and place your resources in it. Place ROD-Ex.ahk into Script's folder and run it.
Either AutoHokeySC.bin or Resource.dll will be placed/created in the script's folder and will be updated with the resources.


Download : ROD-Ex (10.09 KiB)
The above script has a wrapper dependency : FileIO16.ahk (1.92 KiB)

Useful information on how to refer resources stored inside PE : Embed images in compiled AutoHotkey scripts?
You might be interested in ResHacker a fine tool to view/manipulate resources.

MSDN:
Resources Functions : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms674625%28VS.85%29.aspx
Resource File Formats : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms648007%28VS.85%29.aspx
Resource Types : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms648009%28VS.85%29.aspx
Icons in Win32 : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997538.aspx

Edit: The previous < 45 line code is here: ROD-45L.ahk

[interiot]

Pish, a real hacker would have done it without creating a temporary file. Just kidding, very impressive.

(on the serious side... can we have something like MemoryLoadLibrary() built-in to AHK?)

[SKAN]

[Lexikos]

Do you plan to develop this any further?

A few things I have learned:

• Named resources aren't worth the trouble:
  
  • UpdateResource will succeed with lower-case resource names, but you can't reference the resources unless the names are upper-case. (Names seem to be case-insensitive when referencing existing resources.)
    
  • UpdateResource seems to clip the last character of the resource name. Consistently on XP and Vista, if I pass "NAME", it uses "NAM", so I instead pass "NAME." expecting the "." to be discarded. (I hope I am doing something wrong, but that seems unlikely given that the lpName parameter is a simple null-terminated string.)
    
• Internet Explorer controls and ShowHtmlDialog seem able to read images regardless of the resource type. I've tried bmp, png, jpg and gif, with success.
  
• Bitmap resources (RT_BITMAP=2) are in the same format as .bmp files, excluding the BITMAPFILEHEADER. In other words, discard the first 14 bytes.
  
• Icon resources are a little trickier. Icons in Win32 explains the ICO format in addition to the RT_GROUP_ICON and RT_ICON resource formats.
  

I also have a custom build of Ahk2Exe which allows a custom bin file to be specified on the command line. I'll upload it if you're interested. (UpdateResource may be applied to AutoHotkeySC.bin the same way it is applied to a resource DLL.)

[SKAN]

[Lexikos]

Ahk2Exe_L.zip
Ahk2Exe_L_src.zip
It should be put in the Compiler directory to support function libraries, but you may rename it to coexist with the original Ahk2Exe.

[SKAN]

[SKAN]

Dear Lexikos,

[Lexikos]

Be warned that my custom build of Ahk2Exe does not support the /NoDecompile option. As far as I can tell, it is not implemented in the downloadable Ahk2Exe source.

[SKAN]

OH!..

I can somewhat understand the concern of Mr.Chris

Did you try my script Lexikos ?

I need some info. I found how to obtain hFont from raw TTF bytestream. It works fine with WM_SETFONT on AHK control.

You have already shown how to refer images from HTML .. but how to use an embedded font .. i.e., use it from HTML ?

I did not try, but my best guess is that WM_SETFONT would not work on an IE control.

[n-l-i-d]

Did you try font embedding with the res-protocol yet?

[heresy]

you've done it finally !
i didn't tried it yet but i believe that i'll need it someday when i making gui scripts for public
though it's resource only, non-programmers can make dlls now.
how sweet it is thanks for sharing SKAN!
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[SKAN]

[n-l-i-d]

.eot/WEFT (embedded open type), and res protocol (don't know if this works)

[ladiko]

could i use your work in compile_ahk to manual add resources to a script when it is compiled? a reference to you in the credits would be obvious