Data does not appear to be stored . RC file for dialog

[Stephen Howe]

Hi

Using Visual Studio 2003 (VC++ 7.1)

I have a problem with a MFC dialog box for a MFC project.
The problem is with a drop-down combo control for the this dialog.

I have pre-populated, statically the Data member with 4 items.
So using Visual Studio, if I look at this dialog box using the Resource
Editor, I can see the contents.

The problem is I cannot see this data stored in the RC file.
If I search I can find it in the RES files under Debug and Release
directories, and also the APS file.

Yet we save the RC file in SourceSafe, not the APS or RES files.
I find this worrying. I was under the impression we were 100% saving the
Source code, now it turns out that is not true. The APS file and RES files
could, in theory, be deleted and regenerated from the RC file.

How can I force the saving to RC file?
Something is not quite right here but I am not sure what.

Thanks

Stephen Howe

[Stephen Howe]

> Yet we save the RC file in SourceSafe, not the APS or RES files.
> I find this worrying. I was under the impression we were 100% saving the
> Source code, now it turns out that is not true. The APS file and RES files
> could, in theory, be deleted and regenerated from the RC file.
>
> How can I force the saving to RC file?
> Something is not quite right here but I am not sure what.

This is solved.
It turns out the data was present but as hexidecimal textual characters.

Thanks

Stephen Howe