[Lazarus] Form in DLL

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 05:12 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>> I do do this with Delphi,
>> FOUL! :-)
> Only for testing, of course. I have but the old free Turbo Delphi. ;-)
>>>
>>> AFAIK there is a page on this in the Lazarus Wiki.
>> Is this what you're thinking of, or is there more that I've so far 
>> overlooked?
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/shared_library#Sharemem_implementation_details 
>>
> 
> Yep.
> 
> My colleagues who are very professional Delphi programmers, very happily 
> use this with Delphi:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastmm/
> 
> This memory manager makes many Delphi applications a lot  faster (it 
> manages short, medium and big chunks separately, for "short" it 
> allocates a pool of memory blocks of equal size that can be found by 
> multiplying the number by a constant instead of walking a linked list). 
> Moreover it allows for tracing and synchronizes DLL and main application 
> memory managers.
> 
> I don't know if/how it can be used with Lazarus.

Thanks, I'll bear all of this in mind. I've also seen discussion and an 
example from a Metatrader forum.

I'm slowly working towards a novel collaborative dedevelopment app, and 
if there's a "root" manager coordinating overall work then it seems 
reasonable that he should have the ability to tweak "leaf" workers apps- 
for example to add a new context-sensitive highlight. If that can be 
done without everybody having to interrupt their session, possibly 
losing state, so much the better.

/If/ I decide to play with this, then I've got the choice of either 
waiting until I rough out the collaborative stuff, or trying it in one 
of the interim apps that I'm using to test techniques. I'll either be 
asking for help, or reporting stunning success :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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