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MP3Car.com - Coders Corner http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/ Development Resources en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:13:26 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/images/misc/rss.jpg MP3Car.com - Coders Corner http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/ Question for the linux devs http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/coders-corner/137204-question-linux-devs.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:59:14 GMT Are there any significant differences between how linux paints a window and how windows paints a window??

Having an awful bug with software designed for .net and running on linux which doesn't seem to be an issue with mono. The screen will not repaint until a mouse click happens. After that, the entire repaint queue runs perfectly. ]]> Coders Corner justchat_1 http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/coders-corner/137204-question-linux-devs.html Need help with ActiveWinamp plugin http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/coders-corner/137179-need-help-activewinamp-plugin.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:23:29 GMT I'm using AutoIt, but I guess the case should be relatively easy.

I did take a look at the plugin dll with DLL Export viewer. This is what I got:

Code:

IApplication

-----------

ChangedStatus

ChangedTrack

ChangedVolume

PlaybackEOF

CancelTimer

ExecVisPlugin

GetIniDirectory

GetIniFile

GetSendToItems

GetWaVersion

Hwmn

LoadItem

MediaLibrary

Panning

Pause

Play

Playlist

PlayState

Position

PostMsg

Previous

Repeat

RestartWinamp

RunScript

SayHi

SendMsg

SendTimeout

ShowNotification

Shuffle

Skin

Skip

StopPlayback

UpdateTitle

Volume



IPlaylist

--------

Clear

Count

DeleteIndex

FlushCache

GetSelection

Hwnd

Item

Position

PostMsg

SendMsg

SwapIndex



IMediaItem

-----------

Album

Artist

ATRString

DbIndex

Enqueue

Filename

Genre

Insert

LastPlay

Length

Name

Playcount

Position

Rating

RefreshMeta

Title

Track

GetItem

Hwnd

Item

PostMsg

RunQueryArray

SendMsg



ISiteManager

-------------

arguments

AttachEvents

Desctiption

Quit



_IApplicationEvents

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ChangedStatus

ChangedTrack

ChangedVolume

PlaybackEOF

As you can see there are a few categories:
IApplication
IPlaylist
IMediaItem
ISiteManager
_IApplicationEvents

"play" is an IApplication command. The following code works:

Code:

$winamp=ObjCreate("ActiveWinamp.Application")

$winamp.play

I guessed I could create a new object for IPlaylist, something like:

Code:

$winamp=ObjCreate("ActiveWinamp.Playlist")

$winamp.clear

This DOESN'T work, though. I had to code it like this:

Code:

$winamp=ObjCreate("ActiveWinamp.Application")

$winamp.playlist.clear

This works. So far so good. I can access application and playlist commands. Now I want to access MediaItem commands.
I thought it would work the same, like this:

Code:

$winamp=ObjCreate("ActiveWinamp.Application")

$album=$winamp.mediaitem.album

But I always get an object error. Seems I didn't understand the principle. Can someone explain it to me, plase ? ]]> Coders Corner Konrad http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/coders-corner/137179-need-help-activewinamp-plugin.html C++ tutorials http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/coders-corner/136303-c-tutorials.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:18:34 GMT Well, maybe I have too much free time, but I'm thinking about learning a programming language. I'm looking for some books/online tutorials on C++, just because I am fascinating with it. I want to be able to write plugins and small routines for me, eventually, working drivers for peripherals to make them work right! (one can dream, LOL).

Why C++? I think it's a cool language to learn the basics, that can lead to learning other languages perhaps. I also considered .net, but I heard it's slow and old (but C++ is older, right?), (slow)Java, but I don't think they're powerful enough.

I've also programmed assembler (and Basic) in the 80 (I was a teenager then, I'm 38 now!), but that doesn't count. I've taught mathematical logic early in my career but that was in my 20's and my brain cells were fine - the drugs and booze didn't affect me much...They say if you haven't published something outstanding before 30's you're done in logic ------- and they were right!! So I'm not scared of symbols, as long as they have a well defined, consistent structure etc., I like them really!

I like this one, for starters:

Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example
by Andrew Koenig, Barbara E. Moo

Of course I'm going to need much more, and I'll also look at some online tutorials (hard to find a fairly new one that well rated)...google can be overwhelming sometimes.

I also hope compilers have evolved from the 80's...I used to hate those things, I could write code faster than the buggy mess they produced. I have no plans to use Unix either.

Any suggestions? ]]> Coders Corner RipplingHurst http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/coders-corner/136303-c-tutorials.html