Update checker.
Now the tweaker automatically checks for new versions, and allows you to update with one click.

Get the new version here.

What’s supported:

• Decompilation and compilation of: string table, message table, accelerators, menu, version info.
• Menu and dialog preview.

What’s not supported:
Everything else, including:

• Dialog’s control editor.
• Search.
• Export to .rc file.
• Unicode file names.

Technical details: how did I do that?

So, how did I make Resource Hacker handle Unicode without having it’s source code?

Originally, Resource Hacker’s decompilation process looks more-or-less like this:
File (Unicode)
–[TO_ANSI]–>
Memory (ANSI)
–[DECOMPILE_ANSI]–>
Decompiled text (ANSI)

A native Unicode resource editor would look like this:
File (Unicode)
–>
Memory (Unicode)
–[DECOMPILE_UNICODE]–>
Decompiled text (Unicode)

But making Resource Hacker work this way would require rewriting it’s decompilation functions, as they expect ANSI text, and we want to decompile Unicode.

So, to achieve our goal of easily making Resource Hacker handle Unicode, we need the following:

• The Unicode information must be preserved in memory.
• The decompilation functions should work without a major change.

I was thinking about whether this is even possible, and then it hit me: UTF-8!

UTF-8 is (Wikipedia):

a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set. It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in UTF-16 and UTF-32.

Exactly what we need, eh?
Now we can make the decompilation process look like this:
File (Unicode)
–[TO_UTF8]–>
Memory (UTF-8)
–[DECOMPILE_UTF8]–>
Decompiled text (UTF-8)

Making it is relatively easy, and because UTF-8 is backward compatible with ASCII, the original decompiling functions work almost without changes.

The latest question left is: how do we show the decompiled text in Resource Hacker, while it uses non-Unicode controls?
Luckily for us, Resource Hacker uses the rich edit control, which supports multiple encodings even as a non-Unicode control. (this support is not 100%, e.g. you cannot paste Unicode text copied from an external program)

Get the new Resource Hacker FXer here.

• Option: Left click on the active thumbnail minimizes the window. Windows 7′s taskbar provides no easy way to minimize a window in a combined item. The whell scroll options help here, but when a mouse wheel is not available (e.g. a laptop), they don’t help much. The new option provides a way to minimize the active window by clicking on it’s thumbnail.
• Fix: Multiple thumbnails now show up when grouping is disabled. This bug existed since the first version of the tweaker. When grouping was disabled programs which used to show multiple thmubnails for a single window (like IE and it’s thumbnails for tabs) showed only one thumbnail.
• Italian language. Thanks vfede!

What’s new:

• A portable version. From the setup wizard, you can choose to install the tweaker normally or to extract the portable version. The portable version works for both 32 and 64 bit systems.

  

• Option to change system volume by scrolling. You can choose to enable this option for the notification area or for the whole taskbar.

• Option to open ungrouped items nearby. In case you disabled grouping for some (or all) of the taskbar items, you have now the option to open them one near the other.
  e.g. if you open a new instance of Google Chrome, this is what you get by default:
  

  This is what you get with grouping disabled:
  

  The new option allows you to get this:
  

• Alphabetically sorting of items in a group. Here’s how it looks:

  

• Brazilian Portuguese language. Thanks Carlos!

A small release with basically one new option: You can choose how the plugin generates new labels.

Also, this release includes a version for Immunity Debugger.

New in this version:

• More taskbar item hover options. Now you can choose to show a list instead of the thumbnail preview (see screenshot below), show a tooltip (shows only if the title doesn’t fit), or show nothing at all.

  

• More combining options. You can choose to combine (or not) your taskbar items. This, e.g., is how the taskbar looks with the “Always combine, hide labels” taskbar option and the “Don’t combine grouped items” tweaker option:
  

  Also, you can set per Application ID rules for combining in Taskbar Inspector.

• New option: Reserve empty space on taskbar. The tweaker has options for middle/double clicking the taskbar’s empty space. It works great except when the taskbar gets full. This option reserves a little square at the end of the task list, where you can always double/middle click.
  

• New option: Hide the “Show desktop” button. This option was requested several times, so here you go.

• Small fixes. The most notable of which is that the thumbnail preview does not get closed when you minimize with the mouse wheel.

New options in this release:

• Mouse wheel options. You can scroll between taskbar items with the mouse wheel, as well as minimize/restore a window when hovering a taskbar item or a thumbnail.
• Decombining the active group. This option will keep the currently active group decombined, similarly to the “decombine on mouse hover” feature.

Also in this release:

• New interface logic. The options are now divided into three categories: Taskbar items, Grouping and combining, and Other, which will make it easier for you to navigate through them, and will make it easier for me to add new options. Special thanks to Arcyon for giving me some tips about the interface.
• Improved stability. The previous versions had some flaws regarding thread safety. This could rarely lead to a crash, a Taskbar Inspector window that does not close, or some other issue. The new version fixes these.

I’ve also made a video that demonstrates the new (and some of the old) features:

P.S. Not all the languages form the previous version are available in the new one at the moment, sorry for that.

Anonymous labels
You can now use anonymous labels, which are defined as ‘@@’ and are referenced to as @b (or @r) for the preceding label and @f for the following label.

Example:

	JMP SHORT @f
	NOP ; skip it

@@:
	JMP SHORT @b ; (or @r) an infinite loop

Saving to and loading from files

You can save your code to a file for later use.
A special “lib” folder is created for keeping files, but you can choose to save them in any other folder.

Sharing the tabs between multiple OllyDbg versions/instances
There’s an option in ollydbg.ini labeled “tabs_path”, which allows you to set the path where your tabs’ files are saved.
Starting with this version, you can set several OllyDbg versions to use the same path, and they will share the same tabs.
Also, you can open more than one MUltimate Assembler window and manipulate with tabs, and the changes will apply to it’s other windows as well.

Note! If you are updating from an older version and want to keep your tabs:
1. Open ollydbg.ini, find the plugin’s section, and cut the tabs_* options: tabs_counter, tabs_last_open, tabs_file[x].
2. Go to the path specified in “tabs_path”, and create a file named “tabs.ini”.
3. Create a “[tabs]” section and paste the tabs_* options from ollydbg.ini.

• French (Fabien Demaret)
• German (jacky0815)
• Slovenian (Arcyon)
• Spanish (Diego Alejandro Muñoz)
• Swedish (TimeCenter Online booking)

Update (11 September):
Polish translation is also available, translated by MAURYCY (Artur Łukasik).

Thank you guys! I didn’t expect to get so many translations.
This will make it easier for many users to use the tweaker.

7 Taskbar Tweaker is now available in Russian (thanks 333hronos) and Turkish (thanks Fatih_BaKeR).

If you want to translate the tweaker to your language, read last question of the FAQ here.