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Resource Compiler Error RW2002

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Parsing error

To fix by checking the following possible causes

  1. Accelerator type required (ASCII or VIRTKEY)

    The type field in the ACCELERATORS statement must contain either the ASCII or VIRTKEY value.

  2. BEGIN expected in accelerator table

    The BEGIN keyword must immediately follow the ACCELERATORS keyword.

  3. BEGIN expected in dialog

    The BEGIN keyword must immediately follow the DIALOG keyword.

  4. BEGIN expected in menu

    The BEGIN keyword must immediately follow the MENU keyword.

  5. BEGIN expected in RCData

    The BEGIN keyword must immediately follow the RCDATA keyword.

  6. BEGIN keyword expected in string table

    The BEGIN keyword must immediately follow the STRINGTABLE keyword.

  7. Cannot re-use string constants

    You are using the same value twice in a STRINGTABLE statement. Make sure you are not mixing overlapping decimal and hexadecimal values. Each ID in a STRINGTABLE must be unique. For maximum efficiency, use contiguous constants that start on a multiple of 16.

  8. Control character out of range [^A - ^Z]

    A control character in the ACCELERATORS statement is invalid. The character following the caret (^) must be between A and Z, inclusive.

  9. Empty menus not allowed

    An END keyword appears before any menu items are defined in the MENU statement. The Resource Compiler does not permit empty menus . Make sure you do not have any open quotation marks within the MENU statement.

  10. END expected in dialog

    The END keyword must occur at the end of a DIALOG statement. Make sure there are no open quotes left from the preceding statement.

  11. END expected in menu

    The END keyword must come at the end of a MENU statement. Make sure you do not have any open quotation marks or a mismatched pair of BEGIN and END statements.

  12. Expected comma in accelerator Table

    The Resource Compiler requires a comma between the event and idvalue fields in the ACCELERATORS statement.

  13. Expected control class name

    The class field of a CONTROL statement in the DIALOG statement must be one of the following types: BUTTON, COMBOBOX, EDIT, LISTBOX, SCROLLBAR, STATIC, or user-defined. Make sure the class is spelled correctly.

  14. Expected font face name

    The typeface field of the FONT option in the DIALOG statement must be an ASCII character string enclosed in double quotation marks. This field specifies the name of a font.

  15. Expected ID value for menuitem

    The MENU statement must contain a menuID field, which specifies the name or number that identifies the menu resource.

  16. Expected menu string

    Each MENUITEM and POPUP statement must contain a text field, which is a string enclosed in double quotation marks that specifies the name of the menu item or pop-up menu. A MENUITEM SEPARATOR statement requires no quoted string.

  17. Expected numeric command value

    The Resource Compiler was expecting a numeric idvalue field in the ACCELERATORS statement. Make sure that you have used a #define constant to specify the value and that the constant is spelled correctly.

  18. Expected numeric constant in string table

    A numeric constant, defined in a #define statement, must immediately follow the BEGIN keyword in a STRINGTABLE statement.

  19. Expected numeric point size

    The pointsize field of the FONT option in the DIALOG statement must be an integer point size value.

  20. Expected numerical dialog constant

    A DIALOG statement requires integer values for the x, y, width, and height fields. Make sure that these values are included after the DIALOG keyword and that they are not negative.

  21. Expected string in STRINGTABLE

    A string is expected after each stringid value in a STRINGTABLE statement.

  22. Expected string or constant accelerator command

    The Resource Compiler was not able to determine what kind of key is being set up for the accelerator. The event field in the ACCELERATORS statement might be invalid.

  23. Expecting number for ID

    Expecting a number for the id field of a control statement in the DIALOG statement. Make sure you have a number or #define statement for the control ID.

  24. Expecting quoted string in dialog class

    The class field of the CLASS option in the DIALOG statement must be an integer or a string, enclosed in double quotation marks.

  25. Expecting quoted string in dialog title

    The captiontext field of the CAPTION option in the DIALOG statement must be an ASCII character string enclosed in double quotation marks.

  26. File not found: filename

    The file specified in the Resource Compiler command line was not found. Check to see whether the file has been moved to another directory and whether the filename or path is typed correctly. Files are searched for using the INCLUDE environment variable or the Visual Studio setting, if available.

  27. Font names must be ordinals

    The pointsize field in the FONT statement must be an integer, not a string.

  28. Invalid accelerator

    An event field in the ACCELERATORS statement was not recognized or was more than two characters in length.

  29. Invalid accelerator type (ASCII or VIRTKEY)

    The type field in the ACCELERATORS statement must contain either the ASCII or VIRTKEY value.

  30. Invalid control character

    A control character in the ACCELERATORS statement is invalid. A valid control character consists of one letter (only) following a caret (^).

  31. Invalid control type

    Each control statement in a DIALOG statement must be one of the following: CHECKBOX, COMBOBOX, CONTROL, CTEXT, DEFPUSHBUTTON, EDITTEXT, GROUPBOX, ICON, LISTBOX, LTEXT, PUSHBUTTON, RADIOBUTTON, RTEXT, SCROLLBAR. Make sure these control statements are spelled correctly.

  32. Invalid type

    The resource type was not among the types defined in the WINDOWS.h file.

  33. Text string or ordinal expected in control

    The text field of a CONTROL statement in the DIALOG statement must be either a text string or an ordinal reference to the type of control. If using an ordinal, make sure that you have a #define statement for the control.

  34. Mismatched parentheses

    Make sure you have closed every open parenthesis in the DIALOG statement.

  35. Unexpected value in RCData

    The raw-data values in the RCDATA statement must be integers or strings, each separated by a comma. Make sure you did not leave out a comma or leave out a quotation mark around a string.

  36. Unknown menu subtype

    The item-definition field of the MENU statement can contain only MENUITEM and POPUP statements.