If he'd pass the code onto you, I think in an afternoon you could have his issues solved. Just my guesstimation though ;)
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgra...@mac.com>wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a project that I need to get an external created for and have run > into a snag. The guy that is writing it for me is following the tutorial > online and keeps getting errors. He thinks it is because the tutorial is > for Version 2.7 and not 5.5 but I don't know enough to give him an answer. > > Here is a clip from my dev guy: > > > We have managed to get our hands on a VC++ demo application which is > able to > > trap Keyboard events even when the form is not in focus. It is an MFC > > Application which uses this functionality and it works pretty well. > > > > After this, we decided to start creating a Hello World External > Application > > to get an idea as to how we can use the code from this VC++ application > as > > an external. We followed the article at > > > http://www.runrev.com/developers/lessons-and-tutorials/tutorials/advanced-externals-part-1/ > > but we could not manage to get it to work and it kept on > > saying "error in function handler" when we click on the button. We > believe > > that something has changed in the LiveCode IDE since this tutorial was > > written; probably the tutorial was written for LiveCode 2.7 and now we > have > > LiveCode 5.5. So, we are kind of stuck here and are unable to move > forward. > > Any help or suggestions will be very very appreciated. > > Tom > > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com > mcgra...@mac.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode