Re: Resource IDs

Todd Berman wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 02:29 +0200, Andras Biczo wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > currently the resource ID of an embedded resource will be it's filename 
> > in MD (at least for c# projects, I haven't checked the others).
> > This is different from what Visual Studio does. What VS does is 
> > explained here:
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbgrffileswithoutembeddedcultureinfostrings.asp
> > I think this is a better way of assigning the IDs because currently in 
> > MD it can cause problems if you have two resources with the same 
> > filename (e.g. res/small/logo.png, res/big/logo.png). Besides this, it 
> > makes life easier for people that use MD and VS to work on the same project.
> >
> > The patch I attached modifies the way MD assigns embedded resources' IDs 
> > (only for c# projects). It works as follows:
> > 1. If the resource file is "inside" the project base directory then its 
> > ID will be its relative path with the directory separator character 
> > replaced with '.'.
> > 2. Otherwise it gets the same ID as before.
> >
> > Would anyone please review the patch?
>
>
> The patch itself looks alright, however.
>
> We would like to see the ability to set resource ids. I wouldn't have
> (personally) any issues with the default resource id being the method
> you described here, but it would be nice if you could say 'this file
> goes in with this resource id'. You can use the new project format and
> solution tree pad stuff to give this functionality.
>
> Does that make more sense?
>
> --Todd


Sure it would be better if one could manually change the resource ids. 
I'll try to implement this as soon as I have some time.

Andras