I'm working on a project which has seen a lot of different Visual Studio versions over the years.
For some installations, currently with VS2022, V 17.1.3 (but also before with VS2019) whenever i edit resources and save them, some of the constants of dialog resources are replaced with numbers in the .rc file:
F.e. ES_AUTOHSCROLL is replaced by 0x80
CONTROL "",IDC_TXT,"RichEdit20W",ES_AUTOHSCROLL | WS_BORDER | WS_TABSTOP,96,115,38,12
CONTROL "",IDC_TXT,"RichEdit20W",WS_BORDER | WS_TABSTOP | 0x80,96,115,38,12
and ES_MULTILINE | ES_AUTOVSCROLL | ES_AUTOHSCROLL | ES_WANTRETURN is replaced by 0x10c4
CONTROL "",IDC_COMMENT,"RichEdit20W",ES_MULTILINE | ES_AUTOVSCROLL | ES_AUTOHSCROLL | ES_WANTRETURN | WS_BORDER | WS_TABSTOP,95,204,219,30
CONTROL "",IDC_COMMENT,"RichEdit20W",WS_BORDER | WS_TABSTOP | 0x10c4,95,204,219,30
A seemingly arbitrary define from Resource.h is replaced in DLGINIT from
IDC_SOME, 0x403, 9, 0
to
1838, 0x403, 9, 0
even though it is defined in Resource.h as
#define IDC_SOME 1838
and no others are replaced.
Also a line is inserted between all bitmap and cursor resources so that
IDR_MAINFRAME BITMAP "res\\Toolbar.bmp"
IDB_TREEITEM BITMAP "res\\treeitem.bmp"
and
IDC_TRACKBALL CURSOR "res\\track.cur"
IDC_ZOOMWINDOW CURSOR "res\\zoom1.cur"
become
IDR_MAINFRAME BITMAP "res\\Toolbar.bmp"
IDB_TREEITEM BITMAP "res\\treeitem.bmp"
and
IDC_TRACKBALL CURSOR "res\\track.cur"
IDC_ZOOMWINDOW CURSOR "res\\zoom1.cur"
Is this a bug or is there a setting or property which can be used to stop this?