Trouble developing external

[Shawn Blc]

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 <mcgrath3 at 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
> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>
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