3rd party sdks

[ken gray]

i'm trying to do some sdk level things to winamp and am having trouble trying to get it to "connect" to WA's code base. could you give me a an idea of how to hook up 3rd party api's to qm. WA's sdk is it c/c++.

would the process be similar for other sdk's from various software vendors?

thanks

site for sdk download
http://www.winamp.com/nsdn/winamp/sdk/

[Gintaras]

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php ... did=180297

Code:

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int hwnd=win("" "Winamp v1.x")
if(!hwnd) ret
SendMessage(hwnd WM_USER 15 121) ;;select track 15 (does not work)
SendMessage(hwnd WM_USER 0 102) ;;play (works)


[ken gray]

WOW!!!
i must say my 30 second and 3 minute skip macros are now insanely more stable in videos!

i was able to find and get the menu button ids for the 5 second back and forward in their sdk (which i could have gotten from the menu item recording) but getting the time and then doing a plus 30 second or 3 min done "under the hood" really makes the transitions nice and smooth!

so, searching for the WM_USER, WM_COMMAND, and WM_COPYDATA abilities are the key for getting other products hooked up right? I'm really not very versed in the low-end programming and using qm to do this stuff is perfect (see multiple keyboards in qm )



THANKS!!!!

[Gintaras]

so, searching for the WM_USER, WM_COMMAND, and WM_COPYDATA abilities are the key for getting other products hooked up right?

I don't think that many programs that can be controlled from other programs support messages. More common ways are COM (then you find the type library, ...) and command line.

[Gintaras]

Question about multiple keyboards. When keyboard detector is running, does BlockInput2 work? On my computers, if I use raw input (used by keyboard detector) or DirectInput, low level keyboard hooks (used by BlockInput2) do not work. Mouse hooks work.

[ken gray]

BlockInput2 results:

1st mouse: no movement; no button action
2nd mouse: no movement; no button action; no triggered macros

1st keyboard: full keyboard access
2nd keyboacd: full access to UNASSIGNED keys; no triggering of macros with keys

[Gintaras]

Thanks. Next QM version will have options to use low level keyboard and mouse hooks for triggers, but I cannot find how low level keyboard hooks can be used together with keyboard detector. Unless they are running in separate processes.