A while ago Chris Martin's summary on how to get custom icons
into MapInfo interested me enough to wonder what else you can do
with this technique. Basically --and this works great-- you can
create a custom ActiveX DLL that will allow you to use all sorts
of home-made icons like so:
1) Create a new ActiveX DLL project
2) Open resource editor, and add your custom bitmap pairs
3) Save resource file in Project
4) Save and compile project
5) Distribute...
6) When selecting icon, specify pathname of DLL
eg. ICON 1002 FILE "MyIcons.DLL"
7) Sit back and impress friends and colleagues, with smiley faces
and
Bunny Wabbits.....
(You need at least VB 6 or you won't have the Resource Editor.)
But my question now is, can you make ActiveX DLLs that can
contain functions and subprograms that can be called from MapInfo
like you can with the earlier style DLLs? If so, does anyone have
a small example? I know VB can't do the old style DLLs, but it's
VB that I have now, so it would be neat to be able to use to make
new style DLLs, if they could be made to work with MapBasic. Can
this be done?
- Bill Thoen
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