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Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:54
PM
Subject: [DUG]: What is the best
way
Hi
All.
I have got an app.
that gets data from devices via the comport.
60% if not more of
the data from these devices is similar or easy to deal with, like dates
and times, but other info can be specific to a device, and i have to normalize
it into a format that I want.
In times gone by,
about 6-7 years ago, if not more, when I first wrote this app., I used DLL's
and depending onn teh devide you specified in an INI file it used that DLL,
which I think from memory was done via the setup, so there was only one
DLL.
BUT this was
really not a good idea, as it was hard to debug and just overall never
practical.
I have thought
that I could use classes this time round, once again specifying the device
type in an INI file, and then based onthat it would know hat class to
use.
But is this the
best way either? I mean, if I find a device that has not got a class for it
already, then its a new EXE release.
I guess what woud
be idea would be if I could load some specific functions up at runtime, and
then access them then it would only ever be a txt file or whatever that I
would need to distribute.
I thought
something like Delphi WebScript, but I need to get results back to go into a
DB.
Has anyone got any
Ideas? Would Classes be the best? or is there something else I can look
at?
Cheers,
Jeremy
Coulter
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