Setup Query for Gary: FreeResource
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Fri Aug 1 23:21:00 GMT 2003
Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 05:16, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> According to the MS docs, FreeResource is an obsolete 16-bit
compatibility
>> function. Do we really want/need to use it?
>
> MS recommend using DeleteIcon etc rather than it for new code - and
> yes, its nice to free resources we've used :}.
Well, yes, obviously, its nice, but will FreeResource do it? In the offline
docs I was looking at, FreeResource wasn't even documented - just mentioned
in a list of obsolete functions. It is documented in MSDN - as being the
complement to LoadResource. We can only guess how LockResource fits into
this picture.
Max.
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