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Patchou please we beg of you; implement callbacks into Plus! Scripting.

Why could the following not be possible? (Looking for the technical answer, not just can't do it.)

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var objCallbacks = {}
    objCallbacks['EnumWindows'] = MsgPlus.CreateCallback();

Interop.Call('user32', 'EnumWindows', objCallbacks['EnumWindows'], 0);

function OnFunctionCallback(hCallback, lParam1, lParam2, lParam3, lParam4, lParam5, lParam6, lParam7, lParam8, lParam9, lParam10) {
    switch (hCallback) {
        case objCallbacks['EnumWindows'] :
            Debug.Trace(lParam1);
            return objCallbacks['EnumWindows'];
    }
}

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02-05-2008 08:52 PM
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RE: Developers heart felt wish!
There could be problems with the parameters, because they are different (both count and size) depending on what callback you're using (or if you create your own). I don't know if it's possible in some way to solve this (well it could work if you pass parameters to the CreateCallback() method of the MsgPlus object).
02-05-2008 09:10 PM
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RE: Developers heart felt wish!
matty, it's just not that simple you see... scripting functions are very different than native function. Please post back and give me a list of function for which you would need a callback, I'll try to work on something.
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Well my preference would be all of them because that would make the scripting engine complete as far as Win32 API support.

I still don't understand the technical details as to why this cannot be incorporated.
02-05-2008 11:37 PM
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Please give me the one thing I asked you to provide. I only need you to give me a list of functions you plan on using with callbacks so that I can check them out (for things like calling conventions). Thank you.

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02-06-2008 07:51 PM
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Aren't most (if not all) callback functions in the form of:
MessageCode, wParam, lParam ??

Making it actually more like:
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// instruct Plus! to make a (callback) function internally and let it return its address
var objCallbacks = {}
    objCallbacks['EnumWindows'] = MsgPlus.CreateCallback();

Interop.Call('user32', 'EnumWindows', objCallbacks['EnumWindows'], 0);

function OnFunctionCallback(hCallback, Message(or handle to wnd), wParam, lParam) {
    switch (hCallback) {

Making it almost the same as OnWindowidEvent_MessageNotification???

Using this 'convention'/method you would have covered almost all callbacks... (By heart I only know of only 1 callback function which uses 1 more parameter; WindowProc)

Interpreting what the parameters are (just a number or a pointer to something else) is the responsebility of the scripter, imho, just like with OnWindowidEvent_MessageNotification (?)

/me sits beside Matty on his knees begging :D

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O.P. RE: Developers heart felt wish!
EnumWindows (callback: EnumWindowsProc)
InternetConnectW (callback: InternetSetStatusCallback)
EnumDisplayMonitors (callback: MonitorEnumProc)

Here is 3 off the top of my head.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Aren't most (if not all) callback functions in the form of:
MessageCode, wParam, lParam ??

Making it actually more like:
code:
// instruct Plus! to make a (callback) function internally and let it return its address
var objCallbacks = {}
    objCallbacks['EnumWindows'] = MsgPlus.CreateCallback();

Interop.Call('user32', 'EnumWindows', objCallbacks['EnumWindows'], 0);

function OnFunctionCallback(hCallback, Message, wParam, lParam) {
    switch (hCallback) {

Making it almost the same as OnWindowidEvent_MessageNotification???

using this 'convention'/method you would have covered almost all callbacks... (By heart I only know of 1 callback function which uses 1 more parameter; WindowProc)

/me sits beside Matty on his knees begging :D


Using the many params was just to make sure all were covered WndProc who cares about we don't need Plus! scripting to subclass Windows thats just too much access to the system.

This post was edited on 02-06-2008 at 08:37 PM by matty.
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http://allapi.mentalis.org/apilist/e.shtml

Anything starting with "Enum" there :P
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Alrighty, thanks for the info. You'll have it in 4.51 :).

And to answer your first question: the reason why Plus! doesn't have it yet is that for this kind of thing to work, I need to work on extra calling layers in the software to make it as much transparent as possible for the scripting world. Jsut remember that it's not because something looks easy to use in scripting that it is easy to implement. That's the whole idea :).
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You'll have it in 4.51 :).

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