Any .rc resource script Editor recommendation for non-VS IDE?

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Any .rc resource script Editor recommendation for non-VS IDE?

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Hello,
I need a good ".rc" resource script Editor for non-VS IDE?

I have used "ResEdit" but it is constantly crashing, also I found out that it has been classified as PUA by many antivirus scanners.

I also tried "Resource Hacker", but it messed up the resulting ".rc" file after saving it (e.g. if I create ".png" files inside a "res" folder it will recreate all these files in the root directory ignoring all the created sub-folders and rename all these ".png" files to ".bin" ones and convert all the filenames to UPPERCASE) and this is very annoying.

If anybody has a good experience working with ".rc" files, please share it with me.

And BTW, how was "wx.rc" created!? using a tool or just a text editor, because when using the later, you have to remember all the ".rc" definitions.

TIA.
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Re: Any .rc resource script Editor recommendation for non-VS IDE?

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Hi,
What kind of resources you want to edit?
And what IDE, if any you are using?

Thank you.
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Re: Any .rc resource script Editor recommendation for non-VS IDE?

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ONEEYEMAN wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:26 pm Hi,
What kind of resources you want to edit?
And what IDE, if any you are using?

Thank you.
I want to edit an .rc file to embed some resources like ICO, CUR, PNG, JPEG in the EXE file under windows using Code::Blocks.
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Re: Any .rc resource script Editor recommendation for non-VS IDE?

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tomay3000 wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:49 pm I want to edit an .rc file to embed some resources like ICO, CUR, PNG, JPEG in the EXE file under windows using Code::Blocks.
This is trivial to do with a text editor. I don't think you need a dedicated resource editor for that.
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Re: Any .rc resource script Editor recommendation for non-VS IDE?

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doublemax@work wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:52 pm
tomay3000 wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:49 pm I want to edit an .rc file to embed some resources like ICO, CUR, PNG, JPEG in the EXE file under windows using Code::Blocks.
This is trivial to do with a text editor. I don't think you need a dedicated resource editor for that.
I know, but to avoid any errors when typing, I thought of using a dedicated resource editor for that.
But if wx.rc has been created/edited by just a text editor like Notepad++ or Sublime text editor or even the IDE editor, then I will go this way too.

Thank you.
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