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Hi all,

I want to make a Messenger Plus! plugin which displays the progress of active file transfers in a conversation somewhere in the conversation window (for example below the display picture of the one you're talking to).

I've already done some research on this, and in the typelibraries of MSN Messenger I can see some interfaces which are interesting. There is a library P4PLib with the interfaces IChannel, IFileInfo and DChannelEvents.

Now I would like to get a pointer to one of these interfaces to be able to keep track of the progress of a file transfer. With Plus! I can get a pointer to the IMessenger interface, but I don't know how to get a pointer to one of these. I guess I'll need a technique which is similar to the one Patchou uses to get the IMessenger pointer.

Someone got any clue on how I could do this?

Thanks very much in advance.

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Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
I thought the P4PLib was what MSN Games used

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Yes I believe it is.

Hmm, well, looking at the methods in the interfaces, it just seems that P4PLib is also used to transfer files and messages. If this is true, a IFileInfo instance should be available for every file transfer which is active.

This would be a nice way of grabbing the file transfer progress (if it would be possible to get it to work), but maybe there are also other ways... Any suggestions?

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Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
hmmm, I remember having seen that before...
Are you familiar with debugging?
if so, get the richedit pdb's, and hook on the InsertObject call, trace back a bit after you've sent a file and find the constructor, hook that constructor and keep track of the status

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Yup, very familiar with debugging. Actually that's quite a good suggestion, I'll try that. Thanks .