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Building a Module/Plugin-styled structure with Visual Fo
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09/11/1998 23:32:29
Phillip Jaenke
Ketyra Database Systems
Berea, Ohio, United States
 
 
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09/11/1998 23:18:36
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Visual FoxPro
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>Yes you can do it (if I understand you correctly). You can create DLL's as
> your plug-ins with a common property/method basic structure so that they can
> be queried by the core app as to function. Bad news: No UI components in a
> DLL.

John -

I'm hoping to avoid DLL's as much as possible for just that reason. The UI is going to vary quite wildly from module to module, without a doubt. And to integrate all UIs, which I don't even know what they will all look like, into the core interpretation database, would be instant bloat the likes of which none of us have ever seen before. (You thought 250M for one app, sans docs, was bloat? Wait'll you see THAT mess.;)

What I'm hoping to do is something similar to perl, or sort of, for lack of a better example. Basically, the modules are standard VisFoxPro forms, with non-standard programs that are interpreted by the moduleInterpreter code.

Prepare for bloat, or start hacking now? ;) Thanks! :)
-Phillip R. Jaenke (prj@nls.net)
Head Developer, Project 'CAP'
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