I was pretty confident that this wouldn't happen, but decided to test to be sure.

When it did happen, I was really surprised.

I created a project, remove the default form, and added a module with     in it.

I compiled it, and it became a 16Kb (16,384-byte) .EXE.

I added a module with 88 lines of type declarations. I recompiled, and the .EXE size was unchanged.

Then I added a module with 67 lines of API declarations. Recompiled, and the size swelled to 20,480 bytes.

None of these APIs are used. Why does adding API declarations change the .EXE size?

It seems that their presence ought to only add them to IntelliSense (strictly an IDE issue), and provide necessary info for the compilation process to include them, [u]when they are utilized in the execution process</u>.

What gives?

I'm thinking out loud, but maybe since you use a declare to do that, The exe now includes checks and data stuctures to handles the calls (or the future calls, the compiler doesn't check if you use them or not)...

HTH

Gonzalo

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I dropped the exe into Word, and sure enough, the strings of the API names—and in some cases (though not all) the strings representing the location of the routines—are contained in the exe.

There didn't seem to be much more in the way of byte-count. Seems like the argument types might be contained, but not much in the way of structures. (They would have to be pretty small.)

Seems impossible that the reason they would be in the exe is so that they can be verified at exe-startup (now I'm thinking out loud...).

hi

    i am justeen.now i am in development.in project have 3 seperate exe file
first exe have onely mdiforms.2 and 3 exe have onely fome

      run time can i set form to mdichid propert to first exe mdiforms

mmm.. what?

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Justeen, don't try and hijack threads.

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Justeen, First of all, post your own question.
Second, in English periods go at the ends of sentences, [u]FOLLOWED</u> by a space, and the first letter of the next sentence is capitalized. Following this set of three "rules" will make everything you write easier to follow.

(Also, “I,” as a pronoun naming yourself, is always, always capitalized.)

So:
  I am justeen. Now I am in development. In [my] project [I] have 3 seperate exe file. The first exe have onely [[u]has</u> only] mdi [add space] forms.[add space] 2 and 3 exe have onely fome [add period]