I noticed that VBA is really only happy when I use absolute paths to my homebrewed DLLs, like:
To be honest, that's kind of a drag. Is there any way possible to use relative pathnames here? I'm really just after shortening the declare statement to make it more palatable. Even this would be an improvement:Code:Declare Function myFunction1 Lib "C:\extremely\long\abs\path\to\DLL\myDLL.dll" _ (argList) As retType Declare Function myFunction2 Lib "C:\extremely\long\abs\path\to\DLL\myDLL.dll" _ (argList) As retType Declare Function myFunction3 Lib "C:\extremely\long\abs\path\to\DLL\myDLL.dll" _ (argList) As retType
Not to mention the fact that if I give someone my Excel document, they only need to change one line to get all the Declare statements to match their own filesystem structure instead of modifying a whole bunch of Declare statements. In this regard, a relative path name to the DLL would be fantastic....Code:Const myPath = "C:\extremely\long\abs\path\to\DLL" Declare Function myFunction1 Lib myPath & "\myDLL.dll" (argList) As retType Declare Function myFunction2 Lib myPath & "\myDLL.dll" (argList) As retType Declare Function myFunction3 Lib myPath & "\myDLL.dll" (argList) As retType
Is there anything that can be done here to make the declarations a bit more user friendly?
Thanks!
Pete




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