Hello,
I am interested in Purchasing PB/DLL, however there is one thing
that I haven't found listed in the features, which is what I am
looking for (among all the other goodies it already has
)...
They are function pointers...
Example is:
Dim fpProc as (Whatever it would be, FPointer Of (Declared Function), etc...)
Dim lPointer as Long
lPointer = some function's address
fpProc = lPointer
then be able to call fpProc directly
result = fpProc(arg1, arg2, etc...)
This is a necessity for me, Microsoft Visual Basic doesn't have
this all they have is VarPtr and Address Of, with no way to do
this directly... The basis for this is to call a LoadLibrary
at runtime, and use functions from the library at runtime,
without having to directly know the dll name...
And while I know C, I hate it's syntax (it's only my
opinion) and would rather not use it to do this...
All my programs are C-Free hehe...
I looked at the Callback stuff with PB/DLL, however there isn't
any detailed description on this website about it...
Also, is it possible to create OCX (I know it's 'basically' just
a DLL, but...) controls with this?
Also, is there a Demo of this or anything? I don't like to
purchase programming products without at least demoing it first
to see if I'm comfortable with it
...
Thanks,
Rick Fleming
I am interested in Purchasing PB/DLL, however there is one thing
that I haven't found listed in the features, which is what I am
looking for (among all the other goodies it already has

They are function pointers...
Example is:
Dim fpProc as (Whatever it would be, FPointer Of (Declared Function), etc...)
Dim lPointer as Long
lPointer = some function's address
fpProc = lPointer
then be able to call fpProc directly
result = fpProc(arg1, arg2, etc...)
This is a necessity for me, Microsoft Visual Basic doesn't have
this all they have is VarPtr and Address Of, with no way to do
this directly... The basis for this is to call a LoadLibrary
at runtime, and use functions from the library at runtime,
without having to directly know the dll name...
And while I know C, I hate it's syntax (it's only my
opinion) and would rather not use it to do this...
All my programs are C-Free hehe...
I looked at the Callback stuff with PB/DLL, however there isn't
any detailed description on this website about it...
Also, is it possible to create OCX (I know it's 'basically' just
a DLL, but...) controls with this?
Also, is there a Demo of this or anything? I don't like to
purchase programming products without at least demoing it first
to see if I'm comfortable with it

Thanks,
Rick Fleming
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