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Optional resource editor patches

Frank Schoonjans, December 6, 2004

The following are 2 proposed patches for the Stony Brook resource editor.

• If you disagree, do not apply the patches.
• If the file size of resedit.exe is not 441344 bytes then you have a different version of resedit.exe, and you should not apply these patches!
• Before editing resedit.exe make a copy of this file first!
• Use the SB "Edit an external binary file" feature to edit resedit.exe

Default button width

When you add a command button to a dialog in the Stony Brook resource editor, the button has a default width of 40 dialog units.

The recommended width for a button however is 50 units.

See:

• McKay EN (1999): Developing User Inferfaces for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Press, Redmond
• Microsoft MSDN

If you want to change the default button width in the SB resource editor, you change the value 28h into 32h at offset 0003E7CCh in resedit.exe.

BS_NOTIFY style

In the SB resource editor a command button has the BS_NOTIFY style by default. For those who think this is not a sensible default, you can remove BS_NOTIFY from the default button style, by changing the value 40h into 00h at offset 0003E7B5h in resedit.exe.