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In article <1992Jul28.174751.27986@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
|> In article <10930@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> littlec1@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
|> >
|> >	problem : i want to allow a user to change the position of
|> >		  controls on the screen.  in fact, i want to create
|> >		  a dialog box editor-like application that will allow
|> >		  a user to customize the interface.  instead of saving
|> >		  the changes to a .RES file, i want to make the changes
|> >		  directly to the .EXE.  under the macintosh environment,
|> >		  api's are provided for this type of functionality.
|> >		  are there equivalents in os/2?  if these functions do
|> >		  not exist, is the format of the .EXE defined well
|> >		  enough that i can make the changes by writing directly
|> >		  to the .EXE?
|> 
|> You mean like Whitewater Resource Toolkit does for Windows code,
|> right?
|> 
|> I can't give details, since this is unfamiliar, but a simple way might
|> be to generate a .RC file and then execute rc.exe to patch the
|> resources into the executable.  There exists a shareware program
|> called dentist.exe which can extract resources from OS/2 executables
|> and DLLs.  You can download dentist from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Look in
|> the pub/os2/1.x/programming directory.  I noticed that it is
|> classified as a 1.x program and not as an "all" program, so I don't
|> know how it'll work with 2.0 (I haven't used it under 2.0 yet), but I
|> see no reason why it should fail.
|> 

There is also another commercial program called EXE Tool which is a
PM based EXE/DLL editor/viewer.  The current version works for 1.x
executables but a 2.0 version is in the works.  In the current version
you can open the resource table, view resources, cut/paste resources
etc.  If you want to add a dialog to an EXE or DLL file, for example,
you can use the Dialog Editor to create a dialog, copy the dialog
to the clipboard and then use EXE Tool to paste the dialog into
a DLL or EXE file.  If you have access to CompuServe there is a
file in the Digitalk Forum (Library 3) called exeinf.exe which is
a self extracting archive which contains the online documentation
for EXE Tool.  This documentation is readable with the View command.

BTW, I'm the author of EXE Tool.


James W. Howe                  internet: jwh@citi.umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI   48103-4943