problem creating dialogs

Hi, I'm just going through theForger's tutorial for win32 API, and have got to the bit about dialog boxes. I've added this code to my resource file:

Code:

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IDD_ABOUT DIALOG DISCARDABLE  0, 0, 239, 66
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "My About Box"
FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"
BEGIN
    DEFPUSHBUTTON  "&OK",IDOK,174,18,50,14
    PUSHBUTTON      "&Cancel",IDCANCEL,174,35,50,14
    GROUPBOX        "About this program...",IDC_STATIC,7,7,225,52
    CTEXT          "An example program showing how to use Dialog Boxes\r\n\r\nby theForger",
                    IDC_STATIC,16,18,144,33
END

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But when I compile the .rc using windres from the MinGW package it comes up with a parse error at the GROUPBOX line, and then when I comment that out there's another one at the CTEXT line. When both are commented out it will compile and run and produce the dialog, but obviously I need to be able to display text and such.
Can anyone tell me why this isn't working and how to fix it?

Thanks.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Ken Fitlike

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...ght=IDC_STATIC

When using windres (mingw windows resource compiler) always make sure your resource script has something like the following at the top:

Code:

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#include <windows.h>
#include "resource.h" /*resource header contains defines for YOUR controls*/
#if !defined IDC_STATIC
#define IDC_STATIC -1
#endif

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When having trouble with compiler/tool errors it is usually helpful to post the exact error text.

Ah, right - that extra text about the IDC_STATIC seems to have worked. Thanks.