Struct in type library for DLL called from Visual Basic

Wrong dicsussion board, sorry.
Menchar
Message Edited by menchar on 10-20-2008 01:28 PM

In CVI, you can get the parameter information into a DLL. First of all, you have to have a function panel (.fp) file with all of your exported functions defined as function panels. From this function panel file you can also generate a windows help file to document your DLL. Once you have the .fp file and .hlp file, you can enable references to them in the build target settings (Build->Target Settings...). Select "Type Library..." and check "Add type library resource to DLL" and "include links to help file" then browse to your .fp file. If there are descepencies between the functions defined in your .fp file and the actual functions you have exported in the DLL, then you may get a compiler error.
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