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Re: Hosting Borland DLLs inside of .NET apps

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From: Bruce Rhoades
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:38
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I have reposted this under ms_compatibility.

"Bruce Rhoades" <bruce.rhoades@gdsinc.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to solve the problem below and was wondering if someone could
> help me out, as I am trying to "host" DLLs created with Borland C++
Builder
> inside of a C#.NET exe:
>
> I created a .NET main form that only has a button on it. The button's
> onclick handler simply makes a call into a Borland DLL exported function
> that creates a modeless dialog box. Upon pressing the button, the dialog
is
> created but tab key navigation does not work.
>
> Note that if I use a similar scenario, where I create the modeless dialog
> box from an MFC DLL and create it with the same .NET "host" the same thing
> happens.
>
> Microsoft's fix to this is to filter the messages for the modeless dialog
> with the WinAPI function, IsDialogMessage() at the application level. This
> works fine for the MFC DLL, but not for the Borland Dll. Using this method
> results in the tab key navigation going in the wrong order.
>
> Is there a way I can get this to work? I imagine BC++ has enhanced
> functionality for these keyboard events that I need to invoke somehow. Any
> comments/code samples are appreciated.
>
> - Bruce R
>
>
>
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