On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 19:29, Dan Kegel wrote:
davep wrote:
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 08:44, Dan Kegel wrote:
Remaining issue I could use help with:
- multiline strings from resource file are displayed with extra newline
between lines in wine, but not in windows. To reproduce, build either as winelib app or build under MSVC6, then run in wine; usage message comes out double-spaced. Help!
Use a backslash on the end of each line to escape the LF.
Look at programs/wcmd/wcmdrc.rc for an example.
I did. Unfortunately, if I do STRING_FOO, "This is a two-line \ string" it looks good in Wine, but it's run together on one line in Windows. Conversely, if I do STRING_FOO, "This is a two-line \n \ string" it looks good in Windows, but it's double-spaced in Wine.
Something's fishy here. Our .rc files should be usable in both environments without change.
I suspect it's a resource compiler thing. The history predates the mailing-list archives at winehq and also my own mail archive so it must be before 1999, but IIRC at that time the only resource compiler to support multi-line text was Borland's. At the time I was tinkering with WineLib applications and also working on wcmd, so I suggested to the developer of Wine's resource compiler that he follow the Borland convention. It seems that MS compilers now accept a similar but incompatible syntax (how unusual) which is the cause of your confusion.
Dave