I have Marco Cantus "Mastering Delphi 3" - its got a good section on
creating Dlls. Also, another great resource is the teachyourself everything
in 21 days: http://www.kaposnet.hu/books/tysdelphi4/ch19/ch19.htm
As far as I can see you have decision to make straight up. Are you going to
implement com (and thus other applications can learn abiout the objects in
your Dll) or implement a standard dll - in which case the calling program
needs to know the exact methods the dll exports. With the latter, creating a
dll is a matter of changing the program to a library, adding exports
statements and thats pretty much it. The former is a smidgen more complex,
but possibly more flexible in the end.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Peacocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 July 2001 17:35
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: Changing forms to DLLs
I have been looking into converting our large application (10 megs plus
even with packages separated) into an EXE with several main DLLs.
The problems are that the application calls several miscellaneous function
units and objects that are shared by all the other units. I wish to grab
several forms of a like nature into a single DLL and do this with between
4-7 DLLs, all with a defined business group (eg, maintenance, entry and
reports all pertaining to a particular section will be a single DLL).
I have been scanning the internet, some books and the help files to find a
reasonable description of how to go about this (I have not done DLLs
before). Everything I can find so far talks of total black box DLLs that
are relatively easy to do.
Can anyone out there direct me to anything on the internet that will tell
me how to go about this process? So much has been written, but it's like
looking for a needle in a haystack.
Steve Peacocke
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