console app vs application using TNMPOP3

[ffej2ffej]

I'm working on a project that is supposed to be a console application. Since it uses a TNMPOP3 component, someone (newsgroup) told me that it's impossible to make it a console application. Instead, I made an application that has no user visible controls and does its job on the 1st tick of a timer which I put on the form. My boss says this is still not acceptable and wants a console application. Is this possible? If it is possible, how specifically do I instantiate the TNMPOP3 component? Where do I put the code to perform this instantiation?

 

[Griffyn]

it's not a VCL component, so there's no issue. to use:

uses
  <appropriate unit>;

procedure CheckMail;
var
  p : TNMPOP3;
begin
  p := TNMPOP3.Create;
  try
    p.Host := ....   // assign properties like this
    // do other things with p
  finally
    p.Free;
  end;
end;

 

[ffej2ffej]

Tried That. TNMPOP3.create requires an owner. I don't rememeber the syntax, but the Delphi non-help says TNMOPOP3.create(TObject: Owner) or something like that. Whatever it was, I tried repeatedly with no success.

 

[Griffyn]

just use

  p := TNMPOP3.Create(nil);

 

[whosrdaddy]

...or you can use a TDatamodule and put your component on it...



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[ffej2ffej]

success! The line that did it is listed below.

myConnector := TNMPOP3.Create(nil);

I also had to include NMpop3 under the uses heading

Thanks squared to all who posted answers including (but not limited to) Griffyn