>>>>>I have built an in-process DLL to handle changes to values in a view. In my main exe I create the server object, and call the appropriate method - say, MyDLL.changeview. Before I call the method I make sure my exe is on the appropriate view. However, the DLL is returning an error - that the alias can not be found. In the debugger I can see the alias is correctly selected immediately before the server object is created; but once inside the DLL it is no longer accessible. I have built the DLL on a CUSTOM class rather than a SESSION class as I assumed the latter would cause just the sort of problem I am seeing - as the SESSION class maintains it's own datasession. I thought the CUSTOM class would have the same datasession as the main exe.
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>>>>>I could create a series of parameters based on each field and pass these to the DLL in turn for each row, but it seems a tedious way to achieve what I wish to do.
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>>>>>Can I "pass a view" to the DLL? Or is this not possible.
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>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>Barry Sutton.
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>>>>Do you really need a DLL ?
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>>>Gregory
>>>Fair point - I had been giving it some thought and I may eventually decide not to implement the DLL. But it is good to know what can NOT be done ( as per Craig's response).
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>>>Thanks
>>>Barry Sutton.
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>>Also bear in mind that each object has its datasession. Since you instantiate your object in the main it will have datasession=1
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>>That object will not be able to access data in another datasession (form with private datasession) unless you use set datasession to ...
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>>You may have to instantiate an object per datasession
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>I have seen it recommended to base DLL on session class so that it has a separate data session. It seems from what you and Craig are saying that a DLL will always have a separate data session - in which case why is the session class recommended over say the Custom class?
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>Sorry for the rather basic questions - I have not created COM servers in VFP before.
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>Barry

In all honesty I have never created COM servers either