Shoutbox

Is there any way to get a seperate thread or window running from inside a plug in? I'm getting nothing but crashes and errors. It seems the only way to get plug-in to execute code is when MP! calls events. I'd like to get around that.

There could be security issues; and Plus! doesn't accept many functino calls whose caller isn't in the same thread as plugin's initialize function. Well, sort of, it may be the plugin developer who should solve this problem

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Originally posted by Mnjul
There could be security issues; and Plus! doesn't accept many functino calls whose caller isn't in the same thread as plugin's initialize function. Well, sort of, it may be the plugin developer who should solve this problem

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So that's a "no"?

I don't really see how creating a thread is a security issue... I wouldn't be talking to Plus! anyway. I'd be perfectly happy using the IMessenger interface. This seems to be my only option because I certianly didn't see a timer function for plug-ins in Plus!, which would be nice.

What kind of timer function do you need?

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Originally posted by Mnjul
What kind of timer function do you need?

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I just need a function inside a plug-in that can either use IMessenger or talk to Plus! and will be triggered predictably at least every couple of seconds.

You can set IMessenger as a global variable and use SetTimer in Initialize, and set up a TimerProc call back function, I think...

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Originally posted by Mnjul
You can set IMessenger as a global variable and use SetTimer in Initialize, and set up a TimerProc call back function, I think...

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I thought about that but for some reason I didn't think it would work. I guess I'll give it a shot, since I can't think of a good reason it wouldn't work.

Well, perhaps you may give it a try and if it doesn't really work, we can have further discussion

Also in what programing language are you gonna do it?
Because if it is in VB then i have an example to show you how to use the SetTimer api

what you can do is reference the MessengerAPI
the use

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Private WithEvents objMessenger As MessengerAPI

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Then in the initialize function

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Set objMessenger = <insert object name here>

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Replace <insert object name here> with the Messenger object Initialize provides.

Also, you can use Class_Initialize and Class_Terminate to show/hide your forms (in vb) and there you can do what you want