Re: design and approach question
kishjeff wrote:
I'm still coming up to speed (hence my level of questions)
Can I still provide the interfaces without using the type libraries..
I assume those are generally owned by the vendor, hence I could not
include those for vendors ("C","A"). So if that is true I'd have to
supply maybe source code
and a dsw/project file so the customer could build their version of
things?
I am not a lawyer. Using a vendor's type library would seem to me, from
a common sense viewpoint, equivalent to using the vendor's published
specifications to make sure your product can be used with their
products. Legally defensible "permission" to do so, it you feel it
might be prudent, is generally available in the form of a developer's
license. You often need one of those to test your code with an actual,
legal copy of the vendor's control anyway.
One other crink.. my dll needs to be callable from other apps, say
written using borland c++ or pascal or whatever/other,
so I assume the interface of the dll should be extern "c".
I wonder if I need to specify cdecl or anything in the calls to the
interface.
The dll itself can be written using mfc or whatever is 'standard'
and required for accessing a particular OCX.
.
mm sorry if I'm confusing myself here.. thanks for the pointers.
Jeff
Yes, if you make your DLL use extern "C" and the WINAPI calling
convention it should be callable from any language that can call the
Microsoft DLLs.
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