[Lazarus] Form in DLL
Michael Schnell
mschnell at lumino.de
Wed May 2 13:39:58 CEST 2012
Without doing something special a DLL does have it's own memory manager
(because the calling program might be not an FPC program and uses an
incompatible memory manager) but it does not have it's own Thread
(because the original purpose of a DLL is just providing callable
functions).
So you can't (carelessly) pass FPC constructs lice objects or strings to
a DLL, because the memory management might fail. There are ways (at
least with Delphi) to make a DLL attach to a main programs memory
management.
A Form uses the LCL "Application" and thus the "main Thread". Creating a
second Main Form (-Thread) is not supported by the LCL.
-Michael
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