Free Windows Resource Editors, Resource Compilers, Icon Editors

Free Windows Resource Editors, Resource Compilers, Icon Editors PixelToolbox PixelToolbox allows you to design icons, wallpapers, patterns and cursors for Windows. GoRC This is a free resource compiler for Windows that produces RES or OBJ files from Windows resource files (.rc files). Icon Suite This software allows you to create both icons (.ico) and cursor (.cur) files with icons of different sizes (16x16, 32x32, 48x48) and colour depths. You can also import bitmap files to form the basis of your icons or cursors, as well as export your image to bitmap files. ResourceHacker Resource Hacker allows you to view, modify, add, delete and extract resources from Win32 executables. It has a built-in resource compiler and decompiler and works with Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000. Open Source Watcom / OpenWatcom Resource Editor / Compiler The Watcom C/C++ and Fortran compiler (now called OpenWatcom) comes with a resource compiler for Windows resources as well as a few fairly decent resource editors. There are resource editors for you to create icons, menus, dialog boxes, and so on. The resource editors create RES files (or ICO files if you are creating icons) directly. LCC-Win32 Resource Editor and Compiler The LCC-Win32 C Compiler also comes with a resource editor and compiler for you to create Windows resources. If I recall correctly, the last time I checked, it can create dialog boxes, but not binary resources like icons. Mingw32 Resource Compiler The MinGW32 compilers come with a fairly decent resource compiler for Windows resources. There is no visual editor though, so you will have to your own resource scripts and have some other means to create ICO files and the like. Digital Mars Resource Compiler The Digital Mars C/C++ compiler comes with a resource compiler. The free downloadable versions do not include any resource editor so you will have to write your own resource scripts and create your ICO files elsewhere. At the time I wrote this, the resource compiler (rcc.exe) is located in their dmXXXutil.zip package (where XXX stand for the digits of the current version). Borland Resource Compiler Borland's resource compilers are available with their free C/C++ command line compiler package. There is no visual editor though, so you will have to write your own resource scripts and have some other means to create ICO files and the like.