Packages are a lot easier to use - read don't have the "hidden" issues that
DLL's have.
Ie You could split your application into packages almost without any
re-coding effort - which is not the case with DLL's.
You can dynamically load/unload packages as required - there used to be demo
of this somewhere ... (This is what the Delphi IDE does/can do).
Myles.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Peacocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2001 6:01 p.m.
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Changing forms to DLLs
Thanks James.
It had some good stuff there but unfortunately did not go far enough. I'm
simply attempting to break up a large app into smaller units that will only
be called by the main app so I am looking at standard DLLs or even packages.
Steve
At 08:44 am 26.07.01, you wrote:
>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.
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