Using string tables.

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### 13.3 Using string tables.

String tables can be used to store and retrieve large collections of strings in your application.

A string table looks as follows:

STRINGTABLE { 1, "hello World !"
2, "hello world again !"
3, "last hello world !" }

You can compile this (we assume the file is called tests.rc) as follows:

windres -i tests.rc -o tests.res

And this is the way to retrieve the strings from your program:

program tests;
{$mode objfpc}
Uses Windows;
{$R *.res}
Function LoadResourceString (Index : longint): Shortstring;
begin
SetLength(Result,LoadString(FindResource(0,Nil,RT_STRING),
Index,
@Result[1],
SizeOf(Result))
)
end;
Var
I: longint;
begin
For i:=1 to 3 do
Writeln(LoadResourceString(I));
end.

The call to FindResource searches for the stringtable in the compiled-in resources. The LoadString function then reads the string with index i out of the table, and puts it in a buffer, which can then be used. Both calls are in the windows unit.

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