Including resource file in a project by .RC file rather than .RES file

Question

I remember reading an article or post somewhere years ago that suggested including a resource file in a project by referencing the .rc file instead of an already compiled .r

Answer 1

I could not get rid from the mainicon in my application, so i made an trapgate.rc file put that file in the src directory, used:

 MAINICON icon ".\Icon\MAINICON.ico"
 5012 icon ".\Icon\5012.ico"

Then used BRCC32 to make from the RC a RES file, did the build and i had the correct icon. you can also put more icons in there and switch thats why i added the line in makeres.bat looks like this :

brcc32 folders.rc -fofolders.res
brcc32 main.rc -fomain.res
brcc32 xOutline.rc -foxOutline.res
brcc32 xSpin.rc -foxSpin.res
brcc32 credits.rc -focredits.res
brcc32 licence.rc -folicence.res
brcc32 trapgate.rc -fotrapgate.res <-- this is my icon file

So whatever you do even if you change the icon in the folder ..\icons of course be sure it has the correct name like mainicon.ico and 5012.ico

Hope that did help for does who can't change the icon in Delphi 7 itself.