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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / DLLs from VB 6

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Hey I'm trying to write some functions to be included in a dll with my project, and I was wondering if anyone has done this using vb6. I can create an active x dll with some functions in it but I can't seem to call them from dbpro. Anybody done this before?
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Hubdule
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Posted: 9th Dec 2002 20:35
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This is (currently) NOT possible because DBPro can't load AcitveX DLL's .. tried that a few times.

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When I tried it it seems to load the dll, but it can't call any functions. So does that mean you can only make dlls in visual C++ that can be loaded and called by dbpro?

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Posted: 9th Dec 2002 22:55
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When you create a DLL using VB6, the DLL exports classes and not the static functions that DBPro is expecting.

That has given me a thought ... can you create a static class function in VB6, and if so, can that be called. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, and has VB6, can they try it?
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Stata whatey? Who?

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I'm going to assume that you understand classes and member functions.

A static function is a function that belongs to a class, but is not attached to any instances of that class.

Hmm... that's probably as clear as mud, and it's getting late here!

I've tried a 'shared public' member function in VB7(.NET) but that doesn't work. But to be quite honest, I didn't expect it to.
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