Re: New to DLLs

From: J French (erewhon_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:26:23 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:40:21 +0200, "Bjørge Sæther"
<bjorge@hahaha_itte.no> wrote:
<snip>

>A good example of when an Interface is useful - just return an implementing
>object and forget it.
>The calling application would know the interface without being bothered with
>the implementing code.
>If reference counted, it dies when there is no references.

I've always avoided messing with COM in Delphi
(apart from a nightmare visit to the AX Factory for an insistent
client)

I honestly reckon that it is better to work with explicit handles, as
one does with the VCL, rather than introduce COM into the foreground
- but maybe I am just biased ...

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