How to use a DLL from another folder than <Geosoft>\bin
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DumitruIon
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The old and new GX developer documentation specifies a way to locate DLLs not placed in <geosoft>\bin directory: one may add a registry key, and then populate it with the names of each subjected DLL.
I haven't been successful so far, not in older OM versions nor in 9.9. Can anybody share with me what exactly needs to be done? A very simple example (similar to the one I tried below) would suffice.
This is what I tried:
1. I compiled XToolControl project (obtained XToolControl.dll and copied into
C:\Program Files\Geosoft\UserDLLs\XToolControl.dll
2. I followed "Installing your custom DLL" (e.g. https://geosoftgxdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GXD99/pages/1525973535/C+C+Development) and created the following registry key (while one may import from a .reg file):
3. I created a user menu with the following content:
MENU "&OM_TOOLS"
4. I loaded OM_TOOLS menu but I got no item shown
5. when I moved XToolControl.dll int <Geosoft>\bin folder, it worked fine
Thank you very much,
Dumitru
I haven't been successful so far, not in older OM versions nor in 9.9. Can anybody share with me what exactly needs to be done? A very simple example (similar to the one I tried below) would suffice.
This is what I tried:
1. I compiled XToolControl project (obtained XToolControl.dll and copied into
C:\Program Files\Geosoft\UserDLLs\XToolControl.dll
2. I followed "Installing your custom DLL" (e.g. https://geosoftgxdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GXD99/pages/1525973535/C+C+Development) and created the following registry key (while one may import from a .reg file):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Geosoft\Oasis montaj\3rdPartyDLLs]
"XToolControl.dll"="C:\\Program Files\\Geosoft\\UserDLLs\\XToolControl.dll"
3. I created a user menu with the following content:
MENU "&OM_TOOLS"
ITEM "XToolControl ..." ,XToolControl.dll(TestXToolControl.ShowXToolControl;Show)
4. I loaded OM_TOOLS menu but I got no item shown
5. when I moved XToolControl.dll int <Geosoft>\bin folder, it worked fine
Thank you very much,
Dumitru
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