Though despite the name it is a plain Win32 object file whose extension is usually .OBJ . The resource script itself includes statements for inclusion of various resource type which are described in the next section. Identifiers can be specified directly in the script. The resources described below are useful with this library. Many image editors can handle these files.
Icon resources Icon resources are very similar to bitmaps, with some limitations.
The keyword is ICON . The Eiffel class to load them is ICON . Like icons the mouse shapes are a special kind of bitmap which are edited with a specialised icon or cursor image editor. Cursor shapes are stored in .CUR files. It contains a set of strings and associated numeric identifiers, which can be plain numbers or preprocessor symbols.