katahiromz / risoheditor

Another free Win32 resource editor

RisohEditor by katahiromz

RisohEditor is a free resource editor for Win32 development, created by Katayama Hirofumi MZ.

It can read/write resource data in RC/RES/EXE/DLL files. UTF-16 resource files are also supported.

• Web page (English): https://katahiromz.web.fc2.com/re/en
• Web page (Chinese): https://katahiromz.web.fc2.com/re/ch
• Web page (Italian): https://katahiromz.web.fc2.com/re/it
• Web page (Japanese): https://katahiromz.web.fc2.com/re/ja
• Web page (Korean): https://katahiromz.web.fc2.com/re/ko
• Web page (Russian): https://katahiromz.web.fc2.com/re/ru
• Web page (Portuguese): https://katahiromz.web.fc2.com/re/pt

Supported Platforms

It works on Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/8.1/10 and ReactOS.

License Agreement

See LICENSE.txt for details of copyrights and license agreement.

Standardization

See "Standardize.md" for our standardization of resource IDs.

FAQ

Question 1. What is "Risoh"?

The word "risoh" means "ideal" in Japanese.

Question 2. What are edt1, edt2, cmb1?

Those are standard control ID macros defined in <dlgs.h>.

Question 3. What is mcdx?

It's a special message compiler I made. See mcdx/MESSAGETABLEDX.md for details.

Question 4. Why did I get garbled characters when compiling with Visual Studio?

The resource compiler of MSVC has a bug in treatment of UTF-8 resource files.

Use UTF-16 (but UTF-16 is not supported in GNU windres).

Question 5. What is the difference between no installer and portable version?

The portable version doesn't use registry but an ini file.

Question 6. Are the 64-bit files supported?

Yes on 64-bit Windows. However WoW64 emulation layer prevents it loading from "C:\Program Files" or "C:\Windows\system32". You have to copy the 64-bit file into another place before loading.

Contact Us

[email protected]

risoheditor's Issues

Check "CompileIfNecessary" checks

Cannot save a dll file with another name

Implement search across items

UTF-16 source input

Cannot load RLE-compressed bitmaps

Support RT_DLGINIT resource data

The position of marked arrow of dialog item is wrong

Improve "ID List" window

Implement emitting resource source code and data files to an arbitary folder

RisohEditor 5.1.5 - Feedbacks about GUI (untranslated strings)

There are some screens with text untranslated
And some parts that could be a slight impovemnts of GUI design.

Please check the screenshots.

Thanks.

Problem in Dialog Metrics

There is a problem of dialog metrics in some situations. Dialog controls were sometimes deviated accidentally. We have to check the font selection mechanizm and DS_SETFONT, DS_SHELLFONT, and DS_FIXEDSYS dialog styles.

Add the CONTROL icon images to MAddCtrlDlg and MCtrlPropDlg

RisohEditor should be human-friendly even for beginners. We will add CONTROL class icons to MAddCtrlDlg and MCtrlPropDlg dialogs.

Realize drag select on dialog edit

Make message compiler (mcdx) compatible to Linux

Make it able to add predefined macros

Improve compilation error display

If there are compilation errors in opening a resource file, the application has to show the error message in the error message box.
If there are compilation errors in updating resource text, the application has to set the error message into m_hBinEdit in human-readable text.

Treat NUL ('\0') characters in string table correctly

Fix Item Search

Add SysLink control

The window class name of SysLink control is "SysLink".

The window styles of SysLink are:

[SysLink]
LWS_TRANSPARENT, 0x1
LWS_IGNORERETURN, 0x2
LWS_NOPREFIX, 0x4
LWS_USEVISUALSTYLE, 0x8
LWS_USECUSTOMTEXT, 0x10
LWS_RIGHT, 0x20

The default window style value is unknown (under investigation).

UTF-16 source output

Bug in "Save As..."

RisohEditor could not overwrite exe file.

Enable input autocomplete

Make big functions out-of-line

「IDの名前」テキストボックスに長い名前を指定できない

Implement the nominal shell font

Support RT_ANIICON and RT_ANICURSOR resources

Unable to load dialog resource with user-defined control class

RisohEditor fails to load Win2k3 desk.cpl DIALOG No.151 that contains "BackgroundPreview" class.

Why WS_CHILDWINDOW is ON?

Support Windows XP

Windows XP has no entry point of _wfopen_s function. RisohEditor cannot start up on Windows XP. Please fix it.

Binary is too large

Add option to convert { } to BEGIN/END

Realize compatibility to Visual Studio 2017

We have to standardize the "resource.h" format and resource IDs for Visual C++.

Bug in Resource Item Deletion

Support OLE controls

Improve English

Improve English translation

Could you improve English translation in "src/lang/en-US.rc"?

Improve treeview item data management and update

1. How to define the resource item data and the treeview item data
2. How to link a resource item and a treeview item to each other
3. How to sort the treeview items
4. How to add a treeview item
5. How to delete a treeview item
6. How to manage all the resource items

preview and extraction of cursors is broken

Allow the user to edit templates

Please accept space in the caption text box

RisohEditor didn't accept space in the caption text box. I will fix it in next release.

If the user typed a space as the last character, then the application should respect his/her action if that space was meaningful.

Support loading "resource.h" and resource ID handling

Introduce "automation" of resource manipulation

AUTORADIOBUTTON STYLE is wrongly interpreted

Please compare the following dialog item styles:

// Visual C++'s RC
1 DIALOG 0, 0, 215, 135
CAPTION "ResTest2"
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUPWINDOW | WS_CAPTION
FONT 9, "Arial"
{
    AUTOCHECKBOX "chx1", chx1, 5, 5, 80, 14	// STYLE 0x50010003
    AUTORADIOBUTTON "rad1", rad1, 5, 25, 80, 14	// STYLE 0x50000009
    COMBOBOX cmb1, 5, 45, 80, 300, CBS_HASSTRINGS | CBS_AUTOHSCROLL | CBS_DROPDOWN | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP // STYLE 0x50210242
    LISTBOX lst1, 5, 65, 80, 41, LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT | LBS_HASSTRINGS | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP // STYLE 0x50A10141
    DEFPUSHBUTTON "OK", IDOK, 35, 115, 60, 14 // STYLE 0x50010001
    PUSHBUTTON "Cancel", IDCANCEL, 115, 115, 60, 14 // STYLE 0x50010000
}

// MinGW's WINDRES
1 DIALOG 0, 0, 215, 135
CAPTION "ResTest2"
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUPWINDOW | WS_CAPTION
FONT 9, "Arial"
{
    AUTOCHECKBOX "chx1", chx1, 5, 5, 80, 14 // STYLE 0x50010003
    AUTORADIOBUTTON "rad1", rad1, 5, 25, 80, 14 // STYLE 0x50010009
    COMBOBOX cmb1, 5, 45, 80, 300, CBS_HASSTRINGS | CBS_AUTOHSCROLL | CBS_DROPDOWN | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP // STYLE 0x50210242
    LISTBOX lst1, 5, 65, 80, 41, LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT | LBS_HASSTRINGS | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP // STYLE 0x50A10141
    DEFPUSHBUTTON "OK", IDOK, 35, 115, 60, 14 // STYLE 0x50010001
    PUSHBUTTON "Cancel", IDCANCEL, 115, 115, 60, 14 // STYLE 0x50010000
}

windres wrongly adds WS_TABSTOP style (0x00010000) to AUTORADIOBUTTON rad1.

Shift to secure computing

Allow space(s) in the path name of resource compiler and preprocessor

Add the "String List" property to ComboBoxes/ListBoxes

RT_DLGINIT (resource)
--> m_rad_window.m_dialog_res (on MMainWnd::OnGuiEdit; opening the RAD window)
--> MAddCtrlDlg.m_dialog_res / MCtrlPropDlg.m_dialog_res (on OnAddCtrl/OnCtrlProp; Properties for Control)
--> MStringListDlg.m_dialog_res
--> RT_DLGINIT (storing on MMainWnd::OnUpdateDlgRes)

Realize Copy & Paste of dialog controls

Fix DS_SHELLFONT-related bugs

Fix the switch of IDC_STATIC visibility

Add Spin controls to GUI dialogs

GUI dialogs should be user-friendly. Spin controls (or UpDown controls) will make them user-friendly.