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10<h1>Resource </h1>
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12<p>The Resource structure contains functions to load resources from a resource file.
13&nbsp; In many cases there are functions in other structures which will load the
14appropriate item from the resource file.</p>
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16<pre>structure Resource :
17  sig
18   datatype ResourceType =
19        RT_CURSOR | RT_BITMAP | RT_ICON | RT_MENU | RT_DIALOG | RT_STRING | RT_FONTDIR |
20        RT_FONT | RT_ACCELERATOR | RT_RCDATA | RT_MESSAGETABLE | RT_GROUP_CURSOR |
21        RT_GROUP_ICON | RT_VERSION | RT_DLGINCLUDE | RT_ANICURSOR | RT_ANIICON |
22        RT_PLUGPLAY | RT_VXD
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24    type HRSRC
25    type HRSRCGLOBAL
26    type HINSTANCE
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28    datatype RESID = IdAsInt of int | IdAsString of string
29    val MAKEINTRESOURCE : int -&gt; RESID
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31    type HUPDATE
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33    val BeginUpdateResource : string * bool -&gt; HUPDATE
34    val EndUpdateResource : HUPDATE * bool -&gt; unit
35    val FindResource : HINSTANCE * RESID * ResourceType -&gt; HRSRC
36    val FindResourceEx : HINSTANCE * ResourceType * RESID * Locale.LANGID -&gt; HRSRC
37    val FreeLibrary : HINSTANCE -&gt; bool
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39name="LoadLibrary">LoadLibrary</a> : string -&gt; HINSTANCE
40    val <a name="LoadResource">LoadResource</a> : HINSTANCE * HRSRC -&gt; HRSRCGLOBAL
41    val LoadString : HINSTANCE * RESID -&gt; string
42    val LockResource : HRSRCGLOBAL -&gt; Word8Vector.vector
43    val SizeofResource : HINSTANCE * HRSRC -&gt; int
44    val UpdateResource :
45       HUPDATE * ResourceType * RESID * Locale.LANGID * Word8Vector.vector option -&gt; unit
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