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TimeSurfer · Newbie Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 12

Are there any tutorials for making dlls with Visual Basic 6 for use with VDS5????

Skit3000 · Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject:

I'm afraid not, since DLLs made with Visual Basic are COM or ActiveX-based. VDS can not handle these kind of DLLs, but I believe DragonSphere's GadgetX.dll wíll be able to do this Smile

vtol · Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject:

I just noticed DragonSphere's profile pic of gadget has has ActiveX inscribed in the pic.

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject:

VTol,
Yes my GadgetX.dll is capable of calling and using pretty much any ActiveX control. You can check out the DLL's feature list at http://www.dragonsphere.net/products/index.html

It is possible to build VDS DLL's with Visual Basic but it does require extra work compared to Delphi and C/C++ also Visual Basic 6 and earlier required a runtime DLL of it's own so that made Visual Basic impractable as a language to build VDS DLL's but technically it is possible. To that I might add that any language that is capable of making a standard Win32 DLL is capable of making a VDS DLL if it has the ability to read a memory byte buffer. In Visual Basic you would have issues reading more than 1 parameter or argument for a command or function but it can technically be done.