Combining Resources

I am new to programming with the windows API, and I figured that what I want to do is possible, but I didn't even know what to search for to find out more about it.

More specifically, I am programming for Windows Mobile 6.5. I have created my own open file dialog because the one that is provided by the API is useless. Now I want to take the open file dialog and all of its functionality, and drop it into another project. The problem is that when I drop my resource files into another project, I get conflicting ID numbers. For example:

Code:

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#define  IDS_MENU  102

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appears in my project, and

Code:

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#define  IDC_BROWSE  102

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is a resource in the dialog that I am bringing in.

Short of going through and manually reassigning numbers, is there any way that I can drop this dialog into my new project and not have any conflicts? I want to just add the resource files to the project, and add:

Code:

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case IDM_MENU_OPEN:
  myOpenFileDialog();
  break;

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to my command handler and be done. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Different windows can have controls with the same resource ID numbers.

For resources I create I use IDs greater than 40,000 to avoid conflicts with the IDE.

Easiest way is to edit the resource.h file and ressign the conflicting IDs.

Thanks for the reply novacain. I didn't know that controls could share a resource ID number as long as they were in different windows. Does that mean that if I create a separate .rc file that contains the dialogs that I want to use in multiple apps, I should just be able to drop it in and go?

Depends on your IDE, but usually you can have multiple .rc files.

You also have to include the resource.h (or add the ID defines to the project somewhere).