If you have Howard's book on hand, Appendix A takes you through the process step by step...
Mike --- In [email protected], Dennis Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I took the challenge from Tomasz that anyone who is willing to learn, > can extend AFL to do anything. My chosen task is to restore the > scroll position of the Parameters Window after a "Reset all" button > click --and yes, it has an important use. > > Tomasz informed me that I would need to write a DLL to make this > possible. There may be other ways, but I will try it this way. > > First I have to say that I do not know C++ (other than AFL has a > similar syntax). Next I am not very familiar with anything Windows (I > am a Mac guy). So if I can do this (with a little help from my AB > friends) Tomasz will be vindicated in his statements. > > I determined that all I need is to make an extremely simple DLL. It > will create the following new AFL function: > > oldScrollPosition = GetSetWindowScroll(newScrollPosition); > > It will simply return the current scroll position of the active > foreground window and then set the scroll position to the supplied > parameter. It should only be about 10 lines of C++ code. > > I have found the Windows calls that will get the handle of the > foreground window, and (with a pointer from Tomasz) calls to get and > set the scroll thumb position on a standard window. > > Everything else I need to do I can handle with AutoIt or AFL. > > I have installed the free ADK and installed the free Visual C++ 2008 > Express program, and started to try to write this. > > Initially I tried just Building the Sample DLL in the ADK. That > mostly works, but gives me errors on the Plugin.cpp: > > error C2491: on 5 critical lines for : Definition of dllimport > function not allowed > these are the PLUGINAPI statements for Release, Init, > GetFunnctionTable, SetSiteInterface, and GetPluginInfo. > > Somehow, I think I really need these lines to compile for any AB DLL > to work... > > I have tried a bunch of things, and I can make it give me more errors, > but unfortunately no less errors. So I think I need some hints or > more help to get started. > > I was wondering if anyone has an answer, or a simple DLL sample > project file that builds error free on Visual C++ 2008 Express that > you could email me to get me started on the right track with this? > > Thanks, > Dennis >
