External sample

[John Rule]

> does anyone have a shell sample project or something I can use to build
the external?

It's on the RunRev website:

ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/distributions/sdk/ExternalSDK.zip

works great...using an old version of CodeWarrior in XP too! The example is
actually in a 'Visual' format (MS Visual Studio I believe).

JR


> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:49:37 -0600
> From: "Chris Sheffield" <revlist at cableone.net>
> Subject: Windows externals
> To: "RevList" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>
> This is somewhat related to my earlier post about determining the CD-ROM
> drive(s) available on a Windows machine.
>
> I'm thinking the best thing is going to be to take Mark's suggestion about
> creating an external to call the WinAPI GetDriveType() function.
>
> So my new question is has anyone done this already?  If not, does anyone
> have a shell sample project or something I can use to build the external?
> I've got VC++, but it's been a really long time since I've coded anything
in
> C, and I've never created a dll, so I'm pretty clueless about how to do
it.
> I've downloaded the external SDK from RunRev, but it's pretty much not
> helpful at all.
>
> If anyone has done this and can offer any advice at all, I would be
> eternally grateful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Sheffield
> Software Developer
> Read Naturally
>