Lol... nothing has changed in the externals sdk for a looooooong time. On 14/02/2013, at 9:01 AM, Thomas McGrath III 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 -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt - There's an external for that! _______________________________________________ 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
