--- Tony Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone tried to do modular programming with rom? So that instead of > > making a change the program, and having to "recompile" every time u make > > a change and have to "restart" the whole entire mud to make changes, > > just do a reload of the module? > > > > I was thinkin about it tonight. And was thinkin about making a modular > > based snippet to allow for this. > > > > What I would like would be some ideas/oppinions/suggestions on what you > > all think about this and what you'd like to see in such a project. Any > > help would appreciated. Even critisizm would be helpful. :) > > > > > > Thanks for your time, > > Rheede > > > > Myself, well... yes and no... > About a year ago, I tried making a modular DLL "plugin" system with > cygwin and a heavily, heavily modified rom. I had tried using DLLs for the > modules but ran into problems debugging the function calls into the DLL. > (Maybe I should have tried with VC++ instead of cygwin?) > The plugin system used a text file (CSV actually) to list commands, > their attributes, the DLL name, and the function names inside the DLL > associated with the command and basically everything that once was inside > the Command Table - function calls were bound dynamically and were (of > course) all of type DO_FUN, etc. It worked nicely, except for the standard > Windows problem of not being able to overwrite a file in use - in this case > the DLLs. This kinda defeated the idea of a hot-pluggable command system > tho. :-/ If I could have figured out a way to force unload the DLL between > function calls, then this wouldn't have been a problem! Maybe I just wasn't > doing something right...
Ah the foibles of using windows. *nix doesn't have this problem, I'd suggest you try it with a different OS. ~Kender ===== -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GCS/L/C/O d-(+) s++: a-- C+++$>++++ UBLS++++$ P+++(--)$ L+++>++++ E--- W+>++$ N !o K? w(--) !O M- !V PS+ PE(++) Y+ PGP->+ t+ 5 X+() R(+) tv+@ b++(+++) !DI+++ D G(-) e>+++$ h---() r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
