Borland® Delphi™ 6 Developer's Guide

Chapter 14. Packages to the Max

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Why Use Packages?

• Why Not Use Packages?

• Types of Packages

• Package Files

• Using Runtime Packages

• Installing Packages into the Delphi IDE

• Creating Packages

• Package Versioning

• Package Compiler Directives

• Package Naming Conventions

• Extensible Applications Using Runtime (Add-In) Packages

• Exporting Functions from Packages

• Obtaining Information About a Package

Delphi 3 introduced packages, which enable you to place portions of your application into separate modules that can be shared across multiple applications. Packages are simply special dynamic link libraries (DLLs) that contain additional Delphi specific information. They differ from DLLs in how they are used. Packages are primarily used to store collections of ...