Resource Hacker Changelog

What's new in Resource Hacker 5.2.7 Build 427

Nov 19, 2023
  • Fixed minor bugs in commandline scripts.

New in Resource Hacker 5.2.6 Build 425 (Nov 18, 2023)

  • fixed a bug incorrectly detecting text encoding
  • fixed several other minor bugs

New in Resource Hacker 5.2.5 Build 409 (Nov 14, 2023)

  • fixed messagebox dialogs missing icons
  • added a scale slider to the image viewer (right-click)
  • fixed crash when changing view from an animated gif to another resource

New in Resource Hacker 5.2.4 Build 386 (Oct 31, 2023)

  • bugfixes for overflow errors

New in Resource Hacker 5.2.3 Build 379 (Oct 15, 2023)

  • Fixed an occasional overflow error bug when saving file

New in Resource Hacker 5.2.1 Build 376 (Oct 7, 2023)

  • Minor bug fixes only

New in Resource Hacker 5.1.8 Build 360 (Nov 19, 2020)

  • Bugfix: Some PNG files were no longer being displayed.

New in Resource Hacker 5.1.8 Build 353 (Nov 14, 2020)

  • Added:
  • Zooming/scrolling views of image resources
  • Update:
  • Enabled scrolling for very tall dialogs
  • Bugfix:
  • Very large binary resources (>>100Mb) could crash the hex editor
  • Occasional bug decompiling dialogs styles (WS_TABSTOP)
  • RC file missing when extracting a binary resource type from commandline

New in Resource Hacker 5.1.7 Build 343 (Jan 3, 2019)

  • Bugfix: fixed broken Accelerator compiling

New in Resource Hacker 5.1.4 Build 333 (Jul 15, 2018)

  • Bugfix: incorrect editor fonts when displaying multibyte characters
  • Bugfix: compiler mishandled hex. escape chars with ambiguous trailing text.
  • Bugfix: incorrect handling of #define directive
  • Bugfix: incorrect handling of statusbar alignment in dialog resources
  • Bugfix: line numbering broken when swapping between editing and binary views
  • Bugfix: relative paths in filenames was broken
  • Bugfix: incorrect error reporting while parsing some #include files
  • Bugfix: extracting resources using commandline scripts was buggy.
  • Added: added support for multi-line comments /* ... */
  • Updated: can now open and save non-resource type text files
  • Updated: context help improved

New in Resource Hacker 5.1.2 Build 332 (Jul 13, 2018)

  • Update: Update to commandline sytax and & bugfixes
  • Bugfix: Minor bug in commandline processing

New in Resource Hacker 5.1.1 Build 330 (Jun 29, 2018)

  • Bugfix: incorrect editor fonts when displaying multibyte characters
  • Bugfix: compiler mishandled hex. escape chars with ambiguous trailing text.
  • Bugfix: incorrect handling of #define directive
  • Bugfix: incorrect handling of statusbar alignment in dialog resources
  • Bugfix: line numbering broken when swapping between editing and binary views
  • Bugfix: relative paths in filenames was broken
  • Bugfix: incorrect error reporting while parsing some #include files
  • Bugfix: extracting resources using commandline scripts was buggy.
  • Added: added support for multi-line comments /* ... */
  • Updated: can now open and save non-resource type text files
  • Updated: context help improved

New in Resource Hacker 5.0.42 Build 308 (Jun 5, 2018)

  • Added: a new menu resource designer
  • Update: the dialog resource designer has had a major update
  • Added : a optional binary view for every resource type
  • Update: improved searching (with more context sensitive dialogs)
  • Bugfix: many bugfixes

New in Resource Hacker 4.5.32 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • Bugfix:
  • Fixed bugs when extracting text resources to RC files from the commandline (related to ansi/unicode conversion).
  • Occasionally the pop-up display of menu resources was too narrow to show all the menu items.
  • Update: Other minor cosmetic changes and fixes.
  • Update:
  • More logical naming of binary files when extracting to RC files.

New in Resource Hacker 4.5.30 (Nov 27, 2016)

  • Update: Very minor cosmetic improvements

New in Resource Hacker 4.5.28 (Nov 25, 2016)

  • Update: Major changes (and improvements) to the commandline syntax

New in Resource Hacker 4.4.26 (Oct 6, 2016)

  • Bugfix: The toolbar state wasn't being preserved between sessions
  • Bugfix: Minor bug decompiling some version info resources

New in Resource Hacker 4.3.20 (Sep 12, 2016)

  • Bugfixes: Numerous fixes to commandline processing
  • Bugfixes: Other minor fixes

New in Resource Hacker 4.2.5 (Aug 17, 2015)

  • Bugfix: Adding a resource to a file without any resources was broken
  • New: Can now change a text resource's format (unicode, UTF-8, ANSI)
  • Bugfix: Some Delphi forms were not being decompiled or recompiled correctly
  • Bugfix: An occasional PNG image was not being displayed
  • Bugfix: Shrinking the main window very small caused a divide-by-zero error

New in Resource Hacker 4.2.4 (Jul 6, 2015)

  • Bugfix: Error when compiling ansi encoded *.rc files
  • Bugfix: RCDATA resources not displayed in their optimal format
  • Bugfix: Error when trying to display 'compressed' resources
  • Bugfix: 'Compressed' files can no longer be modified and saved

New in Resource Hacker 4.2.3 (Jul 6, 2015)

  • Bugfix: Significant bug in the recompiler
  • Bugfix: Minor bug displaying animated cursors

New in Resource Hacker 4.2.2 (Jul 6, 2015)

  • Bugfix: Some monochrome images weren't being displayed
  • Bugfix: Removed extraneous button in "Import Resources" dialog
  • Bugfix: Manifest resources were being converted to UCS-2 format.
  • Modified: Increased font sizes in all dialogs

New in Resource Hacker 4.2.1 (Jun 26, 2015)

  • Bugfix: Some Delphi forms were not being decompiled
  • Bugfix: Hiding the toolbar disabled hide/show dialogs/menus menuitem
  • Bugfix: Some images were not being displayed

New in Resource Hacker 4.2.0 (Jun 22, 2015)

  • Numerous bug fixes to compiler
  • Numerous cosmetic changes to GUI
  • Now easy to create resources from scratch
  • Now easy to compile *.rc script file from both the commandline and the GUI
  • Added script templates for new resources
  • Added search feature

New in Resource Hacker 4.1.3 Beta (May 12, 2015)

  • Major redesign to properly handle RC files
  • Unicode support
  • Improved ANI Icon/Cur display
  • (Documentation coming shortly)

New in Resource Hacker 4.1.2 Beta (May 5, 2015)

  • Improved ANI Icon/Cur display

New in Resource Hacker 4.1.1 Beta (May 4, 2015)

  • Unicode support added

New in Resource Hacker 3.6.0.92 (Sep 20, 2011)

  • PNG icons support added.

New in Resource Hacker 3.5.2.84 Beta (Sep 14, 2010)

  • 32bit Resource Files (*.res) can now also be viewed and edited.
  • Added support for the following Dialog extended style flags: WS_EX_LAYERED, WS_EX_NOINHERITLAYOUT, WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL and WS_EX_NOACTIVATE.
  • All resource language ids (except those for cursors and icons) can now be easily changed.
  • Bug Fix:
  • LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT and LBS_MULTICOLUMN listbox style flags in dialogs previously could not be combined.

New in Resource Hacker 3.5.0.82 Beta (Dec 14, 2009)

  • Now decompiles/compiles 64bit executables too.
  • Added PNG image support

New in Resource Hacker 3.4.0.79 (Jan 6, 2007)

  • 32bit Resource Files (*.res) can now also be viewed and edited.
  • Added support for the following Dialog extended style flags: WS_EX_LAYERED, WS_EX_NOINHERITLAYOUT, WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL and WS_EX_NOACTIVATE.
  • All resource language ids (except those for cursors and icons) can now be easily changed.
  • Bug Fix: LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT and LBS_MULTICOLUMN listbox style flags in dialogs previously could not be combined.