Maybe 'cos the standard API porting tool generated it, and made it part of
the enumeration
Trust me (kinda), you can't make device drivers in anything except MS VC++
(natch, I could be wrong)
> Hmmm... this needs some investigation...why would they have that property
> value if it could not be done....hmmm...see what I can dig up.
>
> Cheers, Jeremy Coulter
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Nic Wise
> > Sent: 27 February, 2001 5:03 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Service Applications
> >
> >
> > > Hi all. Was just writing a Service Applicaton using the template that
> > Delphi provides.
> > > I was looking at the ServiceType property, and noticed one of
> > the options
> > was stDevice.
> > > The help says :-ServiceType indicates the type of service.
> > ServiceType can
> > be stWin32 (a Win32 service the default), stDevice (a device driver),
or
> > stFileSystem (a file system driver).
> > >
> > > SO....am I t assume that Delphi can now wrie Device drivers ?? If so,
I
> > guess it WILL on be an NT/Win2k device driver...bt can someone
> > confirm this
> > IS true ??
> >
> > AFAIK, you can only write device drivers in C or assembly, 'cos
> > it needs the
> > special linker to generate the .sys file - and it only plays with MS
> > compilers.
> >
> > might have changed tho, but I doubt it.
> >
> > N
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