Trouble developing external

[Monte Goulding]

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
> 
> 
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