RC file text edits

[tony74]

I generally do my graphics in PS, then define my bitmaps in the RC file by editing it's text.

Now, lately I notice that getting the edited RC file to 'keep' my edited entries is
something of a hit-or-miss process, usually requiring a lot of trial and error and
many clickings of  'No'  to  '...Do you want to reload it', which more often than not
still results in the bitmaps not being added under the BITMAP portion of the RC tree.

Is there a particular 'trick' to getting direct edits to the RC file to 'stick'?

I'm using version 9 and don't recall having this much of a problem with editing
the RC file (and getting it to accept the indicated resources) in the past.

And, yes, I'm editing the text inside the IDE, not in an external text editor.
The IDE appears to be reloading the previous RC file, any way to stop reloading?

Thanks for any help.

[frankie]

Unfortunately PellesC IDE rewrite the 'RC' files automatically in the process of visual RC editing.
So to avoid any eventual change you must avoid to open the resource in the visual editor, and always answer 'NO' to save it.
I'm not sure if making the RC file read-only can give some help.

[tony74]

Thanks, Frankie.  I'll deal with it.  However if that's the case, it would be convenient to provide a flag to disable auto-reload.

It needn't require any UI refactoring, just a startup flag something like this:

"C:\Program Files\PellesC\Bin\poide.exe --disablereload"

Just a Thought, thanks again.

[frankie]

From menu Tools->options->project you can disable "save files without confirmation", maybe this could be of some help.