windows resources

Hi

I'm trying to make a simple menu for my windows program

this is what the code in the .rc file looks like

Code:

---

GenMenu MENU
BEGIN
    POPUP          "&Help"
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM  "About...",  IDM_ABOUT
    END
END

---

but when I compile I get an error


15 C:\Documents and Settings\Kathy\Desktop\WindowsApp\WinApp.rc [Resource error] syntax error

because of this line

Code:

---

        MENUITEM  "About...",  IDM_ABOUT

---

Can anybody help?

How have you defined IDM_ABOUT? If you have it in a separate resource header then make sure you #include it in your resource script (*.rc). If you don't have it defined then you will obviously need to do so.

is IDM_ABOUT defined?

like this somewhere:

#define IDM_ABOUT 9012

Thanks,

I did forget to include the header in the resource file, i put it in the .cpp file

now my menus dissapeared in the window altogether though.
probably something silly. i'll go track down what i did

Make sure you have this in your RC file at the top:

#define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
#include <windows.h>
#undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS