Hi Brenton,
              I *love* Delphi!

  I'm still stuffing around with Windows comms in Delphi, and in
desperation I went back to VB to see how Appleman did it. It all seems
simple except... 

  Appleman uses CBK.VBX as a callback object to handle Windows'
messages. 

  There are only a few comm messages so it ought to be easy - if I
could only work out what the hell he has in there. So... I've been
studying Delphi trying to write my own VBX (VCL component) going
around in circles picking up a little here and there until - I got
sick of jumping back and forth from VB to Delphi and had a go at
installing CBK.VBX in Delphi... and it works!

  Bloody keith told me VB VBXs won't work in Delphi but this one does,
and there is more... 

  The way Delphi installs a VBX is to translate it from a C++ VBX to a
Pascal unit! all the source code is there, in Pascal! I can read it!
Delphi is magic!

  But there is more... who cares? CBK.VBX works in Delphi as a
generic event handler. I don't even have to write one. Now all I have
to do is nut out a comms package to run the API and I'll be giggling.

... FX: mad giggles

  I thought you said Windows was hard, Grasshopper.

Regards,
Bob
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