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[Klaus Major]

Hi Ken,

> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:10:58 +0100, Klaus Major wrote:
>>> The reason I ask is that you mentioned you didn't want a VBS  
>>> solution,
>> Yep, I really dont want some anti-virus apps go berserk when I try to
>> execute a VBS script on the customers computer, this is a no-go :-)
>>> but the easiest way to attach a "normal" (i.e. non-Rev) DLL to
>>> Revolution is through VBS... if you can use VBS for *this*  
>>> purpose, it
>>> might be possible to find a public domain DLL that will do it  
>>> that can
>>> be attached via VBS.
>> What do you mean exactly?
>> Programmed in VBS and then compiled into a DLL?
>> Or to attach a ready DLL via a VBS? No way, see above ;-)
> What I mean is that I ran into the same problem with "normal" VBS
> files, where it would trigger antivirus software (primarily because it
> was trying to do things with the FileSystem object and that is a
> no-no). However I discovered that if I created a "normal" DLL (in my
> case using Visual Basic 6.0) and then called it from a VBS script that
> only connected to the DLL, executed a function in there, and then
> returned the result to Rev, it wouldn't trigger virus software and it
> meant that virtually any DLL written in any language could be used  
> with
> Rev.
>
> Details are here:
>
>   http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/ext002.htm
>
> So my thought was that there might a public domain "normal" DLL out
> there that did what you wanted (or could be created if necessary) and
> then called from Rev through a VBS script wrapper.

AH, I see. This is definitively worth considering.

Thanks a lot for this very useful info!

> Just a thought,

But a good one :-)

> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Best from germany

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de