Resource Hacker™

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Resource Hacker™

Version: 3.4.0

Author: Angus Johnson

Category: Programs

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Description:

A neat little program that a lot of people can find very useful. Can be used to modify Windows.

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Resource Hacker™ - Version 3.4.0

 

24 march 2002.

Copyright 1999-2002 Angus Johnson

 

http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker

email: [email protected]

 

FREEWARE utility to view, modify, add, rename

and delete resources in Win32 executables and

resource files. Incorporates an internal

resource compiler and decompiler. Works on

Win9x, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP.

 

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Summary:

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Resource Hacker™ has been designed to:

 

1. View resources in Win32 executable files

(*.exe, *.dll, *.cpl, *.ocx) and in Win32

resource files (*.res) in both their compiled

and decompiled formats.

 

2. Extract (save) resources to file in:

*.res format; as a binary; or as decompiled

resource scripts or images.

Icons, bitmaps, cursors, menus, dialogs,

string tables, message tables, accelerators,

Borland forms and version info resources can

be fully decompiled into their respective

formats, whether as image files or *.rc text

files.

 

3. Modify (rename or replace) resources in

executables. Image resources (icons, cursors

and bitmaps) can be replaced with an image from

a corresponding image file (*.ico, *.cur, *.bmp),

a *.res file or even another *.exe file.

Dialogs, menus, stringtables, accelerators and

messagetable resource scripts (and also Borland

forms) can be edited and recompiled using the

internal resource script editor.

Resources can also be replaced with resources

from a *.res file as long as the replacement

resource is of the same type and has the same

name.

 

4. Add new resources to executables.

Enable a program to support multiple languages,

or add a custom icon or bitmap (company logo

etc) to a program's dialog.

 

5. Delete resources.

Most compilers add resources into applications

which are never used by the application.

Removing these unused resources can reduce an

application's size.

 

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Latest changes:

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* 32bit Resource Files (*.res) can now also

be viewed and edited.

* Added support for the following Dialog

extended style flags: WS_EX_LAYERED,

WS_EX_NOINHERITLAYOUT, WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL and

WS_EX_NOACTIVATE.

* All resource language ids (except those for

cursors and icons) can now be easily changed.

* Bug Fix: LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT and

LBS_MULTICOLUMN listbox style flags in dialogs

previously could not be combined.

 

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Note regarding WinXP and Visual Styles:

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* Adding a manifest resource to Resource Hacker™

will cause intermittent problems when viewing

or editing dialogs - so I don't recommend it :)

 

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Known limitations:

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1. Resource Hacker™ will not read 16bit executables.

 

2. Resource Hacker™ is currently compiled with

Delphi 3.02. When decompiling and recompiling

Borland's Delphi forms in applications compiled

with later version of Delphi, there may be errors

in the recompiled forms if frames have been used

to create the form. This error is due to the DFM

keyword 'inline' not being recognized. While

decompiling, the 'inline' keyword will be replaced

by 'object' and, if manually corrected before

recompiling, 'inline' will be rejected by the

Resource Hacker™ compiler.

 

3. To reduce the size of application files, some

applications are "packed" or "compressed" using

an EXE compressor after they have been compiled.

This has a side-effect of making it more difficult

to view and modify resources. When a "compressed"

executable is viewed with Resource Hacker™, only

resource types and names will be visible but not

the actual resources.

 

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Licence Agreement:

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This Resource Hacker™ software is released as

freeware provided that you agree to the

following terms and conditions:

 

1. This software is not to be distributed via

any website domain or any other media without

the prior written approval of the copyright owner.

 

2. This software is not to be used in any way to

illegally modify software.

 

DISCLAIMER: A user of this Resource Hacker™

software acknowledges that he or she is

receiving this software on an "as is" basis

and the user is not relying on the accuracy

or functionality of the software for any purpose.

The user further acknowledges that any use of

this software will be at the user's own risk

and the copyright owner accepts no responsibility

whatsoever arising from the use or application of

the software.

 

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