Newbie question

[chong km]

I used to use VB and just start to read about PowerBasic,
and would like to know more such as :

1. In VB, we declare DLL and reference to it (later it will be in the setup.exe,
which is something I hate), in PB, how is it work? Will it include the DLL
inside the exe?

2. Can I reference object such as Outlook2000, Outlook Express using PB?

3. For these kinds of newbie question, any forum or material I can go for?


Thanks

[Fred Buffington]

In answer to #1, If you mean does it link it and include it in
the exe file - no. All dll's referenced must be either in the
directory where the exe resides or in the path (such as windows
dll's) where your exe can locate it and have a pointer to it
(i guess that's the way to describe it) but dll's are not
included physically in the exe file at compile time.

Im sure you could "run" outlook express via shell, but the
experts like lance will give you a more complete answer to
#2.


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[Peter P Stephensen]

Hi Chong

There are 2 ways to use dll's in PB:

1) The typical basic-way: declare the dll in a syntax that is very
similar to VB

2) The C-way: use LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress API's to load the
dll and get the code pointer to the function you need.

PB is not object-oriented. There is a third-party product that can
be used to make PB-wrappings of objects: http://www.jazzagesoft.com/

Regards
Peter



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