Distance Developers Guide
Third-party components
There are a number of third-party components used to build Distance for Windows and/or are shipped with Distance for Windows.
These have been written by others, for which we usually do not have access to the source code, and which we are not responsible for maintaining. They need to be installed by developers and shipped with Distance for Windows.
| Component / File | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Common Controls Replacement Project (CCRP) | Freeware fancy folder browser dialog | |
| ccrpbds6.dll | ||
| Compaq Visual Fortran Professional | ||
| Ec.exe | Capture standard output and standard error when running Fortran executables | |
| ComponentOne VSFlex | Spreadsheet functionality | |
| VSFLEX7D.OCX | ||
| Data Dynamics ActiveBar | Toolbar functionality | |
| Actbar2.ocx | ||
| Desaware SpyWorks | Low-level functions for process manipulation. Allows some of the power of C++ to be implemented in VB. | |
| dwAXExtn.dll | ||
| ESRI MapObjects | ESRI shapefiles I/O. GIS and spatial functionality (e.g. projections, spatial selection etc) | |
| AF20.dll | ||
| JetTable20.dll | ||
| Mo20.ocx | ||
| mtch.dll | ||
| pe81.dll | ||
| sg81.dll | ||
| Shape20.dll | ||
| Farpoint Tabpro | Tabs used within widgets | |
| TAB32X30.OCX | ||
| IMSL Numerical routines | Come standard with Compaq Visual Fortran Professional | |
| n/a | Compiled into Distance’s MCDS.exe | |
| Microsoft C runtime library | ||
| MSVCP60.dll | ||
| MSVCRT.DLL | ||
| Microsoft DAO | Data access objects. Powers database engine and provides in-code access to Microsoft Jet databases | |
| DAO2535.tlb | ||
| DAO350.dll | DAO 3.51 Object Library | |
| Microsoft Jet 3.51 | Database | |
| MSJET35.DLL | ||
| MSJINT35.DLL | ||
| MSJTER35.dll | Errors | |
| Microsoft Jet 3.51 IISAM drivers | Installable Indexed Sequential Access Method | |
| MSEXCL35.DLL | Microsoft Excel 3.0-8.0 spreadsheets | |
| MSRD2X35.dll | Native Microsoft Access 97 and earlier databases | |
| MSTEXT35.DLL | Tabular text files | |
| Microsoft Windows Script | Utilities e.g. regular expression searching, easy Windows file system manipulation | |
| scrrun.dll | Windows Scripting Runtime | |
| stdole2.tlb | Standard OLE types | |
| vbscript.dll | VBScript Regular Expressions | |
| Microsoft Visual Basic 5 and 6 | Chart, Rich Text Box, Windows Common Controls etc | |
| COMCTL32.OCX | Windows Common Controls ActiveX Control Module | |
| comdlg32.ocx | Windows Common Dialog | |
| MSChrt20.ocx | Chart | |
| MSComCt2.ocx | Common Controls 2 ActiveX Control | |
| RichTx32.ocx | Rich Text OLE Control | |
| VB5DB.dll | Visual Basic ICursor interface library | |
| Polar Software PolarZIP | Compression functions | |
| PolarZIP.ocx | ||
| PolarZipSpan.dll | ||
| Sheridan Software ActiveThreed | Split-window functionality | |
| SPLITTER.OCX | ||
| Zlib Zip | Freeware compression functions - for legacy purposes only - used for compression but deprecated by PolarZIP | |
| DstZip.dll |