Win32 Resources - Data size

[Heinz_]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to load a resource (mp3 file) into global memory so other apps can access the resource. I use the combination of FindResourceEx/LoadResource/LockResource (it works perfect) and i'm able to get the pointer to the data but it's useless since i don't have access to the size of the resource so, apps don't know how many bytes to read. What can i do to get the data size??? Thanks in advance.

[Ernest Laurentin]

Use SizeofResource on the handle that you get from FindResourceEx

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Ernest Laurentin

[ThatsAlok]

Have a look at this article by David Crow :- http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/UpdateResource.aspx[^] or try this wrapper class, who will abstract reading and writing from resource :- http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/dynares.aspx[^]

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