Borland® Delphi™ 6 Developer's Guide

Chapter 6. Dynamic Link Libraries

IN THIS CHAPTER

• What Exactly Is a DLL?

• Static Linking Versus Dynamic Linking

• Why Use DLLs?

• Creating and Using DLLs

• Displaying Modeless Forms from DLLs

• Using DLLs in Your Delphi Applications

• Loading DLLs Explicitly

• The Dynamically Linked Library Entry/Exit Function

• Exceptions in DLLs

• Callback Functions

• Calling Callback Functions from Your DLLs

• Sharing DLL Data Across Different Processes

• Exporting Objects from DLLs

This chapter discusses Win32 dynamic link libraries, otherwise known as DLLs. DLLs are a key component to writing any Windows application. This chapter discusses several aspects of using and creating DLLs. It gives you an overview of how DLLs work and discusses how to create and use DLLs. You learn different methods ...