Find localized Windows strings

Question

I need to find some strings that the current version of Windows is using. For example, when I create a new folder, it is initially named \"New Folder\" on English Vista. I

Answer 1

Shamelessly cribbed from http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/30/65013.aspx. This is mostly correct but if there is a resource string of "New Folder something else" it will match that:

LPCWSTR FindStringResourceEx(HINSTANCE hinst,
    UINT uId, UINT langId)
{
    // Convert the string ID into a bundle number
    LPCWSTR pwsz = NULL;
    HRSRC hrsrc = FindResourceEx(hinst, RT_STRING,
        MAKEINTRESOURCE(uId / 16 + 1),
        langId);
    if (hrsrc) {
        HGLOBAL hglob = LoadResource(hinst, hrsrc);
        if (hglob) {
            pwsz = reinterpret_cast
                (LockResource(hglob));
            if (pwsz) {
                // okay now walk the string table
                for (int i = 0; i < (uId & 15); i++) {
                    pwsz += 1 + (UINT)*pwsz;
                }

                pwsz+= 1;
            }
        }
    }
    return pwsz;
}

UINT FindResourceStringId(HMODULE resource_handle, LPCWSTR string, UINT langId)
{
    UINT resource_id= -1;

    for (int i= 0; i<65536; ++i)
    {
        LPCWSTR resource_string= FindStringResourceEx(resource_handle, i, langId);

        if (resource_string && wcsncmp(resource_string, string, wcslen(string))==0)
        {
            resource_id= i;
        }
    }

    return resource_id;
}

int main()
{
    HMODULE shell_handle= LoadLibraryW(L"shell32.dll");
    UINT new_folder_id= FindResourceStringId(shell_handle, L"New Folder", 0x409); // look for US English "New Folder" resource id.
}