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2007-01-15 06:21:07 AM
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Hi All,
How to convert the Delphi7 resource file with DFM extension to use in TASM?
Or how to extract resources from EXE? I know there are such programs but
when I quickly need them, I cannot found in NET :-( .
Thanks
Ivan
 

Ivan Kossey wrote:
www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
 

Thanks, Bob
but for Delphi the technology does not work. The resources extracted from
exe have nothing to do with Delphi forms and their controls. Apparently
after Delphi linking the resources are hidden.
I have Delphi source code, therefore the .DFM files. How to convert them
to resource files for assembler?
Thanks and regards
Ivan
"Bob Gonder" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >schrieb im Newsbeitrag

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I am assuming that Delphi has similar options to those found in C++ Builder.
Try changing the option in Delphi to save DFM files as text. You should
then be able to make sense of it.
Also note that the VCL uses program-created windows for forms and not
dialogs. Therefore the DFM information for forms does not directly
translate to *.res file information that your assembly program can use. You
will have to use the information in the assembly code and data to construct
the windows.
. Ed

"Ivan Kossey" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
You can extract resources from EXE. A google search will give you many
tools, eg, exescope.
But the DFM resource is useless for your TASM program because the DFM
resource is only some descriptions of the Delphi's VCL's class, properties,
events, etc.
So to use DFM you must have VCL or at lease simulate it in your ASM
code. But that's very complex work.
If you want to do GUI in ASM, just find a good dialog box editor to
generate the standard Windows resource.
Delphi Form is not for ASMers. :-(
 

Ivan Kossey wrote:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dfmedit/

Thanks Mach,
Thanks, Your link is interesting. But DFMEdit does not export dfms in rc.
Source code of DFMEdit is also available but I cannot compile it in Delphi7.
Perhaps it was developed in Delphi 3.
I want indeed too much. Can I at least found a complete description of
resource files except MSDN?
regards
Ivan

Thanks, Koms Bomb,
Hacker
suggested by Bob Gonder but it is useless (see my answer to Bob).
automation by rewriting my Delphi program to Assembler.
Perhaps were useful to translate the DFMs into Assembler code which creates
the controls and loop for processing of Windows messages.
I think there is no such program.
regards
Ivan
 

Ivan Kossey wrote:
msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
I also think SourceForge has resource editors (rc variety) that you
might use or look at the source for ideas/info. see...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_%28Windows%29
 

"Ivan Kossey" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
So why not to recreate the rc file from scratch instead of translating
from DFM?
DFM has big differences with RC files.
If you want to do heavy GUI in asm, you should be ready to take hard
working. Processing Windows message is really dull.
Good luck. :-)
 

Hi Ivan,
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Sorry, I cannot agree. There is DCU32INT by Alexei Hmelnov:
hmelnov.icc.ru/DCU/