Creating The Best DLL (without Resources)

Introduction

The Right-Button ListBox class is a good example of a class created as a descendent of an Owl Class that does not need a resource file. While it is possible to easily create a dll for the right-button listbox directly from a AppExpert project, we can dramatically decrease the size of the dll by creating it as a stand alone dll.

The Process

We will essentially build a stand alone dll within the ide for our AppExpert dll.

First select Target Expert From the Project Menu
Name the new target
Choose dll from the Target Expert Dialog
Then build the new target with all debugging turned off

In the case of the Right-Button ListBox we reduced the size of the dll file from 68K to 9K by this process. The complete code for this example is available here.