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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Putting functions made with DBPro or include files into a DLL file?

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Bluespark
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See topic title.
Is this possible? And how would I get started into doing so?

Thanks in advance.
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IanM
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Posted: 17th Aug 2011 15:09
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No, it's not possible - you need to pick another language to write your DLLs in, such as C++, or PureBASIC

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Posted: 17th Aug 2011 18:18
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IanM, can DBpro dll itself using purebasic and dark GDK
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IanM
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I' not sure what you are asking, so I'll summarise:
1. Create a plug-in using DBPro - no
2. Create a plug-in using GDK - no
3. Create a plug-in using C++ without GDK - yes
4. Create a plug-in using PureBASIC - yes

If any of those doesn't cover your question, then try asking again in a different way.

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So if I write my DBPro functions in pureBasic, and then make a dll, I can #include dll into my program, and it will compile faster? This sounds cool 3000 lines ain't much but it will increase, and it already started to annoy me

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It doesn't work quite like that, but basically, yes - we call them plug-ins.

You create your function that accepts the parameters you require, and returns the result - some returned results are straight-forward (integer), some are not (float, string).

Then you add a resource string that describes your command/function parameters to DBPro, along with how to call it, then you pop the entire DLL into the plugin-users directory, and now you have the equivalent of built-in functions/commands - just using a command from that plug-in will ensure that it is included when you build you EXE.

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Is it possible to write a DLL function that does the equivalent of this?:
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Yes. In fact, I'd guess that it's as trivial in PB as it is for me in C++.

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Interesting. If you know about Evolved's Advanced Lighting, I assume that it's possible to convert all that to a DLL file, right? And it would be a lot of work as well right?
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Anything you can do in DBPro (except read/modify DBPro variables) can be done in a DLL.

I have no idea what Evolved's code looks like, so I have no idea how much work it would take to convert, but even if there's a lot, it wouldn't think it'd be too difficult - a straight conversion of DBPro->C++ usually isn't.

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