<![CDATA[N++ Development: GUI editing]]>What is the recommended/preferred way to edit the resource scripts for Notepad++ GUI development. In the past I’ve used things like ResEdit to edit my own resource files visually. I didn’t know if most people just hand edit them and keep recompiling, or if the Visual Studios Community Edition was able to do that, or what exactly. Currently I just have Express installed. Thanks.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/10427/n-development-gui-editingRSS for NodeWed, 19 Aug 2026 20:15:34 GMTThu, 17 Sep 2015 20:30:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to N++ Development: GUI editing on Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:58:49 GMT]]>I have the Enterprise edition available at the office.
Any paid version of Visual Studio includes the resource editor.

The only free alternative graphical resource editors I know are ResEdit and

ResourceHacker
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/#download

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/11404https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/11404Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:58:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to N++ Development: GUI editing on Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:28:15 GMT]]>Do you have the community edition installed? I’ve got express and it can’t edit the resources through a graphical editor, only plain text.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/11304https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/11304Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:28:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to N++ Development: GUI editing on Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:53:12 GMT]]>Hello dail.
I’ve just made my first steps in editing GUI resource files.

After downloading the source, I opened the Visual Studio project.
I modified the shortcut.rc file with the graphical tool, then I saved, recompiled the project and tested it at runtime.

When everything started to look OK, I went to edit the source code.
VS auto-regenerated it and made it kinda messy.
So I did a diff, found the meaningful lines, and merged the new lines against the old file.
Then I cleaned up removed all unnecessary spaces that VS inserted but were clashing with the coding style.

Now I got a clean file with just a few updates.
You will see my pull request tomorrow.

Hope it helps.

Paolo Gatti <lordkrandel>

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