Re: VB/Delphi "kind of" Service Program_DLL

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So...I'm not following this completely here... are you wanting to have a
customer number (and all key fields) prompt that then writes the values to a
file which could be read by your Access and other apps?

And you're wanting it such that from within Access or Excel or whatever, you
can execute this new app to display the prompt. And your goal is so that the
single prompt provides a uniform look and feel to all the apps, writing the
data to a single file on the hard drive?

Is that what you're after?

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces+sodonnell=irish-studios.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctech-bounces+sodonnell=irish-studios.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 8:58 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] VB/Delphi "kind of" Service Program_DLL

  Customer is using Access/2003 for several apps. Several of them start 
asking for something like "Enter Customer Number", so we'd like to just 
implement such a Function just once and have all initial Forms for each 
app, when users is promted for "enter CustomerNo" either answer with a 
number (if he knows it) or , else, press F4 (or whatever, or a Button) 
to "call a Function" that will do the work: e.g. present a new Form 
asking for key values (LastName starting chars, FirstName starting 
chars, CityAreaCode, etc. Then show customers that fulfill those 
requirements, allow for selection of one of them , ... just to return 
the selected code or a "not found" value... to the original App.

Such a Function would be used throughout in several different Apps. I 
think one (best one???) of the alternatives would be to develop a 
"CustomerSelect Function, receiving no-parms, returning one integer(or 
zero, maybe) value of selected CustomerCode.
This Function could/should be writen either in VB or Delphi, then create 
a  .DLL with that Function, to register under Windows, to be used for 
any VB projects that need it.
I think of it as a "ServiceProgram" in RPG... but as a DLL.

Anyone out there willing to share an example (either VB and/or Delphi) 
of such a Function?
TIA

Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx