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Hello Pietro and welcome!

Building ARROW.DPR should yield the file ARROW.DMX which can be loaded via the Macros button from the main Edit menu.

Regards,
Dave

Under Delphi, Click Project-Options. This will bring up a dialog box. Under Application TAB, locate "Output settings" group box and Enter ".dmx" for "target file extension" without quotes. This will yield dmx when you compile the source code, instead of regular DLL and will also help you if you wish you debug your Macro at run-time using Run-Parameters and defining DCADWIN.EXE as the Host Application. A couple of small things to remember when trying to debug
1. the DMX has to be in the same directory as its DPR file (in other words: don't have a separate output directory)
2. your project path should not contain directories with a space in the name. There seems to be a problem with debugging DLLs with spaces in the project path.

Also Renaming DLL to DMX should run the Macro.

Hope this helps.

Open your test drive installation folder and rename the Dcaddemo.exe to Dcadwin.exe. All dmx macros that gets compiled look for Dcadwin.exe and not for Dcaddemo.exe or DcadLT.exe.
When you have renamed the executable, your DataCAD Demo shortcut might not work and needs to be updated for the new executable name as well.
Sorry for this inconvenience.

This discussion shows the absolute need for some basic reliable documentation on Dcal for Delphi. This lack of documentation is probably why we are all still using the old 'DOS' Dcal.(':cry:')