Call DLL Action

I like to have a new Call DLL Action similar to the functionality in Installers like InstallAware.
I want to specifiy the DLL, DLL exported functions and the necessary parameters.

Thanks for the suggestion Martin.

Out of interest, what sort of things would you use this for?

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For some projects I need to do some custom steps before I can run a test case. These custom steps (like installing a special driver) are already inside of my installer DLL.

Today I have to create an additional wrapper around this DLL to add this step to FB. If I can call a DLL directly I can skip those wrappers.

Tate,my Windows Installer actions use this to install a MSI file. I think all stuff is available in the current FB installation to make a custom action to execute dll functions… Let me find this out and come back to you.I might even find the time to have a look and create it…Raoul

Done a bit on this tonight. Not yet finished and I don’t know for sure if my idea is going to work…

If not I’ll send you the raw material so you can use VBScript to call functions in a dll.


Thanks Raoul - will take a look at it in the next couple of days.