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String resources are stored in a Win32 executable as
blocks of strings. Each block can have up to sixteen strings and represents the
smallest granularity of string resource that can be loaded/updated. Each block
is identified by an identifier (ID), starting with one (1). We use this ID when
calling the
FindResource,
LoadResource and
UpdateResource functions.
A string with ID, nStringID, is located in
the block with ID, nBlockID, given by the following formula:
nBlockID = (nStringID / 16) + 1; // Note integer division.
Each block has sixteen strings, each represented as an ordered pair
(LENGTH, TEXT). LENGTH is a WORD that specifies the size, in terms of the
number of characters, in the TEXT that follows. TEXT follows LENGTH and
contains the string in Unicode without the NULL terminating character. There
may be no characters in TEXT, in which case LENGTH is zero.
An
executable does not have a string table block with ID, nBlockID, if it does not
have any strings with IDs: ((nBlockID - 1) * 16) through ((nBlockID * 16) - 1).
The format is the same in all platforms--Windows NT, Windows 95, and
Windows 98. To modify the strings, the sample uses the
UpdateResource function. Because this function is not implemented on Windows 95
and Windows 98, modification of strings is not allowed on these platforms.