Call Clarion DLL

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Hi Friedrich,

Is it possible with SB6 or SB7 to call a Clarion DLL with the "Call DLL"
function or does the DLL need to be done in C?

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Hi Arnór,

> Is it possible with SB6 or SB7 to call a Clarion DLL with the "Call DLL"
> function or does the DLL need to be done in C?

You can call Clarion, Visual C/C++, Delphi, etc. DLLs and you can even call
Windows APIs.

BTW, there are several "Call DLL" projects in the Examples package.

Does this help?

Friedrich

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Hi Friedrich,

> BTW, there are several "Call DLL" projects in the Examples package.

Yes, that's where I found the example Clarion code so I figured it had to
work;)

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Arnor,

> Is it possible with SB6 or SB7 to call a Clarion DLL with the "Call DLL"

Piece of cake. Compile a "local" DLL (yes, local<g>) and you're good
to go. I do mine in 5.5 since it's a smaller file. I use it to
validate unlock codes, update DEFAULTS.CLW and add my menu items to
the C7 help menu.

-- part of my EXP file

NAME LodestarSoftware GUI
EXPORTS
VALIDATEUNLOCKS @1
UPDATEDEFAULTS @2
INSERTADDIN @3


-- part of the MAP in my CLW

VALIDATEUNLOCKS(*CSTRING, *CSTRING, *CSTRING, *CSTRING),LONG,PASCAL
UPDATEDEFAULTS(*CSTRING, *CSTRING),LONG,PASCAL
INSERTADDIN(*CSTRING, *CSTRING, *CSTRING),LONG,PASCAL

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Hi Lee,

> Piece of cake. Compile a "local" DLL (yes, local<g>) and you're good
> to go. I do mine in 5.5 since it's a smaller file. I use it to

Thanks guys:) I'm almost there. Decided to move a chunk of various classes
into a single clw module rather than link all this gunk in<g> DLL went from
1,084,416 down to 544,768 bytes.

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Hi guys,

> Is it possible with SB6 or SB7 to call a Clarion DLL with the "Call DLL"
> function or does the DLL need to be done in C?

Thanks a bunch guys! Works like a charm of course:)

Best regards,

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Arnór Baldvinsson - Icetips Alta LLC
Port Angeles, Washington
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Arnor,

See my thread 11 lines below this one. I experienced some very odd behaviour
when the window in my Clarion DLL had a button with a TIP attribute. Very
odd indeed but that attribute is what I found caused the problem with lots
of testing.

mdbrooks