Customizing application software in software controlled machines

摘要

A method of customizing application software in an inserting system (10) includes the steps of providing a system baseline program (50) for operating the inserting system (10) in a standard baseline mode, and providing a dynamic link library (DLL) (52) including a table of features to be included in the inserting system and an application routine corresponding to each of the features. A call table (51) in the system baseline program is linked with an address for each feature corresponding to the location of the application program for the feature. The DLL (52) is customized based on information received from the baseline program. Each of the features is called when indicated in the system baseline program (50) and information is provided to each DLL application program corresponding to the feature. The information is modified to make the system baseline program (50) execute a different set of logic corresponding to the customization of the machine. A sub-dynamic link library (sub-DLL) (60) may be provided for further customization. The sub-DLL (60) includes a table (64) of sub-features to be included in the inserting system (10) and an application sub-routine corresponding to each of the sub-features. The sub-DLL is similarly integrated with the DLL and called by the DLL routines.