The DLL Approach to Development of Authorware Interface for Accessing Web Database

Authorware is the most popular programming tool for the development of multimedia application. Sometimes there is a need for accessing Web database in the multimedia application. Authorware has no interface for direct accessing Web database, so it is necessary to present an approach to the subject. This paper described a method of developing a dynamic link library (DLL) as an Authorware programming interface for accessing database using Visual C++. There are a few special export functions in the DLL that can be called in Authorware's applications for the access and operation of the web database. Here is a programming example to describe the development procedure of the interface. The programming practice has proved that developing other special DLL to link with Authorware can also be used to extend Authorware's other special application.