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Hi, Using COM is just fine. We c

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Fursten

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Dec 27, 2000
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Hi,

Using COM is just fine. We can modulize our application in different parts.

However, I would like to ask one thing:

Imagine you have an main exe, which will call some independent dll (in fact they are programs with forms contained on it. I coul do it with ActiveX EXE but I rather using Activex DLL by many reasons that you shurly already know).

The problem is that, the forms of any of the dlls will not be child of the MDI from my main from... so the application gets an uncontrolable apperance. For instance, if you click on the MDI form, the forms of the dlls will go back to the MDI form.

I can´t belive (and I don´t want to belive!!) that there is no way of instanciate dlls with forms contained on it, and that we can´t control them agains our main exe.

If this was true, one never would put forms inside a dll, and this way there was no use of it...

So, my question is: Anyone ever had this problem? Is there any way to solve it?

Thank you :)

Sergio Oliveira
 
Sorry, wish I could help, but the notion of putting forms into DLLs gives me the willies!

Seems like you'd want your user interface closer to the user. Sounds like you'll end up passing hwnd's all over and worse before you're done.
 
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