On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, John Marshall wrote: Thanks for the clarification, and the pointer into the docs. This will certainly make things a lot simpler on this project. The plan before was to use a system shared library, but this way I don't have to worry about coding for or calling system traps.
> What web page are you referring to? It's either wrong or, apparently, > unclear. http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/GLib/GLib.html The last paragraph in the "Creating applications that use GLib shared libraries" is what I'm referring to. > > That is, unless I can call functions in the app code directly from > > the GLib. Is this possible? > > Directly? Of course not -- half the point of a shared library is that > you don't yet know what the app looks like at the time you build the > shared library. A direct call would require (in this limited DSO > implementation) linking the app into the library. That's what I was thinking, but wanted to make sure. Doing a "reverse" function call like that I've done before in Linux, but I guess that DSO implementation isn't nearly as limited :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Smith // avalon73 at arthurian dot nu // http://www.arthurian.nu/ Software Developer // Gamer // Webmaster // System Administrator "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
