listing resources added to program via project options-resources

[muller59]

i add my language translation files as resources to the program.
i can then create the the translation file at runtime from the resource file.
i want to dynamically build the language translation menu from the available resource file contents.

how can i list all resources of type RCDATA in the resource file, so i can "unpack" them one by one and add them to the translation menu.

[lucamar]

There are quite a lot of classes and functions in the package fcl-res that allow you to deal with resources, starting with the unit resource and the class TResource. Look in fclres.chm for more detailed info (though not much, I fear).

IIRC, there are also some wiki pages about it; a search for "resource" should return (almost) all of them.

HTH!

[muller59]

@lucamar
thanks for your response.
The class you describe deals with lazarus resources.
i found out i am dealing with fpc resources, so that class does not apply.
but the principle  holds true, i will start looking into the fpc side of dealing with resources

[marcov]

fcl-res is part of FPC, and FPC's resources (modeled after Windows resources).

(Old) Lazarus "resources" are .lrs stuff, which are no real resources at all.