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Re: Please Help - I'm In Over My Head

From	"Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>
Newsgroups	alt.lang.powerbasic, comp.lang.basic.powerbasic
Subject	Re: Please Help - I'm In Over My Head
Date	2012-09-07 05:39 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Wildman wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:04:03 +0000, Auric__ wrote:
>
>> How about asm? Write a routine that does what you need, compile it into
>> a DLL, call the function from VB or PB.
>
> I wish I could do in assembly. That would be much easier.
> However, I don't have any experience creating dll's with
> assembly or with anything else for that matter. I have
> masm 6.1 but I haven't been able to figure out how to
> create a 16bit dll with it. All the docs I can find only
> talk about 32bit dll's. I'm not sure if 6.1 will even do
> it. Also, I can't find any info on 16bit dll's in the
> docs for nasm and tasm. Can you suggest something?

Don't know anything about Win16 asm, sorry. It was just a thought.

Hmm... Tried doing the whole thing as inline asm in the PB program? Not just 
the data, but the call too.

Failing that, perhaps pop over to an asm group and find out if anyone 
remembers how to write DLLs.

-- 
No main() No Gain!

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Please Help - I'm In Over My Head Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-06 20:12 +0000
  Re: Please Help - I'm In Over My Head "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-09-07 05:04 +0000
    Re: Please Help - I'm In Over My Head Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-07 05:25 +0000
      Re: Please Help - I'm In Over My Head "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-09-07 05:39 +0000
      Re: Please Help - I'm In Over My Head "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-09-07 05:43 +0000
        Re: Please Help - I'm In Over My Head Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-07 18:30 +0000

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