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Re: OS/2 Resources - Control Window Definition

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From: Larry Salomon Jr.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:25
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In <10930@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> das11@starling.cs.uofs.edu (David Sobeski) writes:


>	once again, i am going to post this question to anyone with
>	some insight...

>	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?

Good luck.  There is no API to do this and OS/2 locks the .EXE while the
program is executing in any process space.  Sounds like you're gonna have
to write it as a separate file.  :(

-- 
Cheers,
Q
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!panix!os2man
From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: OS/2 Resources - Control Window Definition
Keywords: OS/2
Message-ID: <1992Jul30.032541.19247@panix.com>
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:25:41 GMT
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