Re: Cygwin 1.7 setup-1.7.exe minor display error

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:22:05PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>2009/6/26 Christopher Faylor:
>> >>Yes. ??Thanks for doing this. ??I hate working with this rc stuff. ??I
>> >>used to use Visual C++ to lay out the dialogs but, somewhere along the
>> >>line, my installation bit-rotted.
>> >
>> >Well, adding those #defines is probably the final kiss of death for
>> >ever being able to edit it that way again. ??(I tried it myself once,
>> >but the first thing I had to do was unwrap all the lines because MSVC6
>> >expected every entry on a single line for some reason. ??It made the
>> >whole thing not much use except for noting down a few co-ordinates and
>> >transcribing them manually into the real thing.)
>>
>> Actually, now that you mention it, I saw the same thing and gave up on using
>> that technique too.
>>
>> Is there another, more friendly, tool out there somewhere that can be
>> used for playing with this kind of layout?
>
>I haven't actually used it, but this looks quite promising:
>
>http://www.resedit.net
>http://www.resedit.net/screenshots.htm
>
>Even mentions MingW and says this: "To open a file which uses Win32
>API symbolic constants, you will also need Win32 header files (usually
>coming with you compiler)", which presumably means preprocessor
>support.

Thanks.  Interesting.  I guess it's too much to ask for a version that
runs on linux...

cgf