Getting Events from the COM SDK

**_dopehead_** · 01-26-2007, 06:06 PM

Hi Guino

I am trying to get info from RR about what screens are active in RR using the SDK. I can send commands just fine with the COMSend function. But how do i get RR to tell my application that someone just pressed AUDIO, GPS, whatever.....button and/or command has been executed ?

**_dopehead_** · 01-26-2007, 06:24 PM

I tried adding something like this to my menu.skin which in theory should make COMReceive fire and send AUDIO to my application, which is called RR_Joystick :
B01,11,73,339,106,"AUDIO||SENDMSG;RR_Joystick;AUDI O","Audio player" But i get no firing of COMReceive

**_dopehead_** · 01-26-2007, 06:25 PM

in modSDK.bas i did this :

Public Sub COMReceive(Data As String)
Text1.Text = "Event" & " " & ":" & Data
End Sub

Just to show the data as it is received, but i get nothing

**_dopehead_** · 01-28-2007, 05:05 PM

Nobody knows? or has sample code ?

**guino** · 01-28-2007, 05:21 PM

You can simply use "SENDMSG" to send messages from the skin to your plugin.. just look up the command in skin commands.txt .. You'll need to hook a window of your plugin before receiving any messages.. check the SDK example application -- it has plenty of examples... You can actually monitor all the commands being executed in RR if you make an extension plugin.

**_dopehead_** · 01-28-2007, 05:56 PM

Ah, ok i see know. It seems i was trying to do this from the compiler....only works when the application has been compiled as far as i can tell.

**guino** · 01-28-2007, 11:00 PM

You have to run the compiled version as the window hooks can sometimes crash VB.. If you're coding a plugin in VB6, I would strongly recommend using the Extension plugin interface, but that's still up to you.