Can HicEst serve as a Windows wrapper for my console type program?
• Yes. If you want to just run your program with no changes use • SYSTEM(RUN = your_command_line_string) You could interactively set the string parameters. • A more elegant solution is to compile your program as a DLL. The header structure is found in HicEst”s help. Or modify the example interactively in Tutorial.dem menu Demos/System/DLL. Use HicEst as the dispatcher to calls of the procedures (entry points) of your program, e.g. • value = DLL(Name=”yourDLL.dll”, Handle=hDLL, Fnc=”Function123″, Arg=data1, Arg=data2, …) With the handle option your DLL will stay open and its static data are retained between calls.
