Hello!

I was just trying to edit the Menu in "notepad.exe". It will do very fine, if I do it manually.

But, when it comes to scripting I am not able to edit the file.

Here is what I have done:

1. I opened the original "notepad.exe" in ResHacker
   
2. Saved [ Menu : 1 : 1031 ] ... to c:\np_menu.res
   
3. Edited the resfile to my needs
   
4. closed ResHacker
   
5. created scriptfile (see below)
   
6. called Reshacker.exe -script c:\np_script.txt
   

np_script.txt

[FILENAMES]
Exe=c:\notepad.exe
SaveAs=c:\notepad2.exe
Log=c:\np_log.log

[COMMANDS]
-addoverwrite "c:\np_menu.res", MENU, 1, 1031

Now it took a minute and Reshacker created this logfile:

[01 Sep 2006, 15:02:20]

[FileNames]
Exe=c:\notepad.exe
SaveAs=c:\notepad2.exe
Log=c:\np_log.log

[Commands]
-addoverwrite "c:\np_menu.res", MENU, 1, 1031

Commands completed

But it does not create the edited file!

I do not know, where the Problem is.

I hope, anybody can help me.

Thanks in andvance

/PITU

i use metapad. much better than notepad. it has a toolbar, unlike xp notepad or even vista notepad.

i simply rename metapad to notepad, makecab compress, and replace installation with this one!

PITU, looking at your log shows that Reshacker didn't found the MENU 1 1031 resource in your .res file. (otherwise the log would have said "Modified: MENU, 1, 1031")

If your c:\np_menu.res file only contains the resources to update and no unecessary ones (it's likely to be the case), you can omit the restype, resname and reslang from the command. I never tested that in a script file, but it works from the commandline :

C:\>ResHacker.exe -addoverwrite notepad.exe, notepad2.exe, np_menu.res, , ,

(you may need to check the arguments order in the help file)

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