[DUG] Memcheck

[Todd Martin]

Hi Wayne

Have a look at the help on LoadPackage().
Instead of compiling/building your application with a runtime package in 
Project -> Options -> Packages, you can load any package  (*.BPL) at runtime 
using the method above.

Todd.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Roser" <rr at kristin.school.nz>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [DUG] Memcheck


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>
>
> Sorry Trevor. Despite being one of those plugging for MemCheck, I don't 
> think I'd recognise a
> dynamically loaded package if one sprang over and pashed me. For a while, 
> I couldn't get Memcheck
> working because I needed a later version; I think it was "floating point 
> error in antelope pashed
> high veldt".
>
> Oh, hang on,  "dynamically loaded package", is that like those weapon 
> magazines in games like Halo?
> Yeah, that'll be it. You press one button to load and the previous 
> magazine seems to be dynamically
> loaded in your backpack or somewhere. I know this because ... someone I 
> know ... reload often,
> sometimes after firing just a couple of shots, and the nearly full 
> magazine never seems to come
> back with any missing.
>
> Wayne
>
> Note to self: don't expose your ignorance to potential employers.
> Note to self: ask someone what a "dynamically loaded package" really is.
> Note to self: don't reload until the magazine is empty for a more 
> realistic (um, you know, with,
> like, various coloured aliens running around the place saying "they're 
> everywhere" in squeeky
> voices) experience.
> Note to self: watch out for those pashope antelings or panting ashelopes - 
> probably coming in Halo
> 3.
>
> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz> on 
> Thursday, 8 December 2005 at
> 6:12 p.m. +0000 wrote:
>>  There was lots of activity last week about using MemCheck.
>>
>>  Has anyone actually managed to make it work with dynamically loaded
>>packages?
>>
>>  I've tried and tried, but all I can get MemCheck to do is crash my
>>program.
>>
>>  Nearly all of the apps that I build consist of a statically linked 
>> splash
>>screen package and a statically linked module loader package and not much
>>else.
>>
>>  Incidentally, this allows me to create multiple apps with the same
>>compiled code.  Just changing the exe name points the module loader in a
>>different direction so different modules get loaded and you get a whole
>>different app.
>>
>>  Typical .exe size is ~25K, but once you (dynamically) load all of those
>>packages, we're talking about a big system.
>>
>>  Could be I'm pashing the antelope a bit more than antelopes like to be
>>pashed.
>>
>>Trevor
>>
>>
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