Restorator is an utility to work with windows resources of applications and application components (PE files).

Restorator allows modifying, adding, and removing resources such as text, images, icons, sounds, videos, dialogs and menus in almost all applications.

Restorator is used for translation, customization, design improvement and development.

This resource editor comes with an intuitive user-interface, complete documentation with many examples and prompt user support via email.

A powerful find dialog lets you find any resource in files on your disk.
You can distribute your modifications in a small, self-executing file - the ResPatcher.

The Grab Resources dialog allows for extracting many resources (images, sounds, etc.) at once.

Furthermore, you can create small self-executing patch-programs, that redo the modifications to a program. You can distribute these ResPatchers freely.

Here are some key features of "Restorator":

· Easy accessible browsing of resource files
· Manipulation of text elements and dialogs in the application
· Editing dialogs WYSIWYG
· Adding multi language support to applications
· Save modifications to be applied later. ResPatcher
· Locating resources on your hard drive
· Locating elements in resources
· Integrate editing tools for images, translation etc.


Limitations:

· Nag Screen
· 30 days trial

resource Tuner is an advanced visual resource editor for 32 bit windows executable files which gives users the power to quickly browse and modify executable file resources from within the file.

resource Tuner is an resources editor and modifier , and can also extract icons.

With resource Tuner you can view, extract, edit, modify, translate, or repair the resources contained within 32 bit windows executable files with the click of a button.

resource Tuner offers a thorough look at all of the resources (bitmaps, jpeg, png, xml, icons, strings, etc) in the file, and allows you to make modifications without needing to recompile the source code.

It also allows you to edit the properties of any controls on Delphi forms within the PE file. Because resource Tuner has itself been written using Delphi, theres a very strong emphasis on peeking inside Delphi applications and packages.

Each element of the user interface - dialog boxes, menus, icons, pictures, toolbars, string tables and more are right at your fingertips. resource Tuner can handle a variety of different PE ("portable executable") file types: EXE, DLL, SYS, MSSTYLE, CPL, OCX, SCR and more.

Support is provided for nearly every type of resources imaginable. Using XP Visual Style Manifest Wizard, you can now incorporate windows XP Visual Style into your application.

The wizard inserts an XML application manifest into the resource section of the executable, allowing your legacy application to take advantage of the slick new look for common controls featured in windows XP.

Here are some key features of "Resource Tuner":

· Support is provided for nearly every type of resources imaginable. The only one that can work with PNG, XML, Image Lists, and Type Library.
· Working with a variety of different file types: EXE, DLL, ActiveX controls, MSSTYLES, SCR and other win32 executables.
· Browsing and viewing resources as text, image or raw data.
· Extracting a resource as a graphic image file (*.bmp, *.gif, *.jpeg, *.ico, *.cur, etc.) and Borland VCL images (ImageList & Bitmap), a media file (*.avi, *.wav), a resource script file (*.rc), a Delphi VCL form file (*.dfm), or a compiled resource file (*.res), respectively.
· Option to create backup files.
· Customizing the general, view and logging settings.
· Saving multiple resources at once. You will be prompted to check the types of resources to save.
· resource optimizing, error checking and repairing automatically performed when opening a file.
· XP Visual Style Manifest Wizard to insert an application manifest into the resource section.
· Support for custom plug-ins to perform any startup processing. resource Tuner ships with the UPX Unpacker plug-in.
· A resource editing solution you can use NOW!
· This is the fastest, most powerful, and easiest-to-use resource editor for Windows.
· You can completely customize any program you own.
· Now you can open files compressed with UPX even without knowing that: your file will be unpacked automatically!
· Easy way for your legacy application to take advantage of the slick new look for common controls featured in windows XP.
· You can navigate easily through the DFM forms and objects and view their contents (Image Lists, Strings List, Glyphs, Bitmaps).
· Using the Plug-in API, you can write your own custom startup processing plug-in for resource Tuner.


Limitations:

· 30 days trial.

resource Hacker is a free program designed to help you view, modify, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit windows executables. It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on all 32 Bit windows OS.

Here are some key features of "Resource Hacker":

· Viewing Resources: Cursor, Icon, Bitmap, GIF, AVI, and JPG resource images can be viewed. WAV and MIDI audio resources can be played. Menus, Dialogs, MessageTables, StringTables, Accelerators, Delphi Forms, and VersionInfo resources can be viewed as decompiled resource scripts. Menus and Dialogs can also be viewed as they would appear in a running application.

· Saving Resources: Resources can be saved as image files (*.ico, *.bmp etc), as script files (*.rc), as binary resource files (*.res), or as untyped binary files (*.bin).

· Modifying Resources: Resources can be modified by replacing the resource with a resource located in another file (*.ico, *.bmp, *.res etc) or by using the internal resource script compiler (for menus, dialogs etc). Dialog controls can also be visually moved and/or resized by clicking and dragging the respective dialog controls prior to recompiling with the internal compiler.

· Adding Resources: Resources can be added to an application by copying them from external resource files (*.res).

· Deleting Resources: Most compilers add resources into applications which are never used by the application. Removing unused resources can reduce an applications size.

resource Builder description
Create, edit and compile RC scripts to build resource files Need a simple, powerful and fast resource file builder? With resource Builder you can create, edit, compile and merge RC scripts to build new resource files (.res) fast. Import resources from existing WIN32 executables and 32-bit/16-bit resource files (RES, DCR).

resource Builder is a very useful full-featured resource editor for Windows.

Extract, update and modify any resources in 32-bit executables (EXE files) and libraries (DLL and other files). Edit images and create dialog windows with Visual Dialog Builder. Save any resource item from your RC script to a specified file.

resource Builder supports JPEGs and can perform graphics conversion to and from BMP, CUR and ICO files. You can also adjust image sizes and quality to get the results you want. Since the program supports DFM (Delphi forms), you can view and edit Delphis and C++Builders forms in simple text format.

This feature is especially valuable because resource Builder comes with own text editor that supports syntax highlighting and search-and-replace function. resource Builder is very well equipped and comes with editors for bitmap, icons, cursors, string table, menu, accelerators, dialogs and version info. HTML and XML support makes resource Builder a natural choice for any project that might involve web integration.

Finally, the program also allows updating resources in existing executable modules. Plus, files can be compiled both with console or command line, which is great for bulk processing.

Conveniently, files can be added by dragging and dropping or with windows clipboard.

Here are some key features of "Resource Builder":

· Working with RC script and RES files with complete support for Unicode RC files and Unicode resource data
· Importing resources from files of various formats
· Patching and updating resources in executable files
· Advanced features in working with graphic resources
· WYSIWYG Dialog editor
· Supporting the DFM format (forms in Delphi and C++ Builder)
· Supporting the HTML and XML formats
· Built-in compiler and command line interface


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

Pelles C description
An optimizing C compiler, a linker, a resource compiler, a message compiler, a make utility and install builders Pelles C for windows is a complete development kit for windows and Pocket PC. Pelles C application contains among other things an optimizing C compiler, a linker, a resource compiler, a message compiler, a make utility and install builders for both windows and Pocket PC.

Pelles C also contains an integrated development environment (IDE) with project management, debugger, source code editor and resource editors for dialogs, menus, string tables, accelerator tables, bitmaps, icons, cursors, animated cursors, animation videos (AVIs without sound), versions and XP manifests.

The compiler is based on LCC (by Chris Fraser and David Hanson), and the install builder for windows is based on NSIS. Both are heavily modified.

Here are some key features of "Pelles C":

· Integrated resource editor.
· Integrated bitmap, icon and cursor editor.
· Integrated animated cursor and video editor.
· Integrated hex-dump editor.
· Integrated source-level debugger.
· Integrated source code editor with Win32 API call tips.
· Project management.
· Inline assembler with Intel syntax.
· Support for custom controls in the dialog editor.
· Support for additional project wizards.
· Support for Microsofts exception handling: __try, __except, __finally, __leave.
· Support for Microsofts new import libraries.
· Support for delayed loading of DLLs, much like Microsoft.
· Support for most C99 features.
· Support for Pocket PC.
· Pelles C is free! (but this site, and all the work, isnt - so donations are welcome)

XN resource editor description
XN resource editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer for Windows. XN resource editor is a powerful, highly-featured and yet free resource editor and PE module explorer for Windows.

XNResourceEditor works with all resource files (.RES) and PE modules (.EXE, .DLL, etc.) but it has special knowledge of modules written in Delphi.

It can display all the modules that comprise a Delphi program, and let you edit the properties of the components used on Delphi forms.

And unusually XNResourceEditor can modify PE modules - even if you use windows 98!

resource editor description
resource editor is as its name says, a very small but useful resource editor. resource editor is as its name says, a very small but useful resource editor.

Despite its small size resource editor is highly featured and designed to meet any demands.

resource Hacker is a freeware utility to view, modify, extract and add resources in 32bit windows executables. It incorporates an internal resource decompiler and compiler and works on all 32bit windows operating systems.

Clarion for windows resource File editor (CWRES). CWRES creates a compiled resource file (RES) that can be linked directly into your 32 bit Clarion for windows Applications. By using CWRES, you can give your Clarion applications a more professional looking appearance adding version and copyright information into your EXE. This information is visible by right clicking on the EXE and selecting properties within windows 95/98/ME or NT 4.0/2000/XP. The information entered into CWRES will be shown on the version tab.