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Helpfile 7.1, Topics DLL Support/SendMessage #224035 04/08/10 03:42 PM
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 93 Austria B BhaaL OP Babel fish
OP BhaaL Babel fish B Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 93 Austria	While updating my DLL to work with 7.1, I noticed that the topics "DLL Support" and (especially) "SendMessage" are not as precise as they probably should be. DLL Support includes the new LOADINFO.mUnicode switch, but it should probably also contain notes about function signatures in combination with it. mUnicode = false should have Code: int __stdcall procname(HWND mWnd, HWND aWnd, char data, char parms, BOOL show, BOOL nopause) as the docs describe. However, mUnicode = true makes more sense with Code: int __stdcall procname(HWND mWnd, HWND aWnd, wchar_t data, wchar_t parms, BOOL show, BOOL nopause) Mixing signatures with mUnicode will most likely result in incomplete and/or garbled text (unicode in char* clips after the first char, single-byte in wchar_t* looks probably off). SendMessage is the one i stumbled over after dealing with the problems above: The mapped file must still written to in single-byte, regardless of mUnicode! Even now when both mIRC 7.1 and my DLL are compiled as unicode apps, that part uses plain char* stuff to send commands around - otherwise mIRC seems to completely ignore it. Bug or intended?

Re: Helpfile 7.1, Topics DLL Support/SendMessage BhaaL #224037 04/08/10 03:48 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	Originally Posted By: BhaaL SendMessage is the one i stumbled over after dealing with the problems above: The mapped file must still written to in single-byte, regardless of mUnicode! The details are hidden in versions.txt, but the support is there: Originally Posted By: versions.txt 02/04/2010 - mIRC v7.0 53.Added SendMessage WM_MEVALUATE/WM_MCOMMAND support for Unicode. By default mIRC assumes that mapped file data is ANSI for backwards compatibility. However an application can "or" the value 8 in the cMethod parameter to specify Unicode data. Edit: Actually this is also documented in /help SendMessage. Last edited by Collective; 04/08/10 03:51 PM.

Re: Helpfile 7.1, Topics DLL Support/SendMessage Collective #224038 04/08/10 03:51 PM
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 93 Austria B BhaaL OP Babel fish
OP BhaaL Babel fish B Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 93 Austria	Ah, thanks for the pointer. I did read over that part, but obviously forgot it. Anyone agrees this should still be in the helpfile aswell? Edit: And now that you mention it, it really is there. At least in the 7.1 docs. Strange, my testing mIRC installation still had a 6.35 helpfile without it Last edited by BhaaL; 04/08/10 03:53 PM.

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