Posted by Jim Guerber on July 31, 2010 at 11:19:40:
In Reply to: Re: New Code Library Posting -- Simple Enter Dialog posted by Stephen Auerbach on July 31, 2010 at 08:14:27:
Steve,
I am glad you asked...
1. From line 61 in jimsdlg.ibs, you can see we must specify the directory for the DLL. The convention at Signature has been to specify the same dir as the program.
2. You don't actually "need" the source of the enter program, but if you want to change anything, you should have it. As an example, see the answer above. All you actually need to implement this process is the enter program (jimsdlg.obj) and the DLL (jimsdll.dll).
3. From line 74, you can see that if the user presses cancel, the string "-CANCEL pressed" will be returned.
4. If the user presses OK, and enters nothing, you will get an empty string.
5. Yes.
6. Yes.
Believe it or not, but this was the First dialog program I ever wrote in IB! I copied dlg5.ibs to start, and Barb talked me through the process of creating the DLL. The whole process took me an afternoon to complete. It was pretty scary and confusing at first, but, as I got the hang of it, it turned out to be OK.
Jim
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