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AppGameKit Classic Chat / [Plugins] Memblocks?

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Posted: 7th Dec 2017 22:19
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Can plugins access memblocks yet?
I saw an old locked thread where it was implied it might be added in a future/next version.
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Posted: 8th Dec 2017 11:03
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yes it was added, use GetMemBlockPtr()
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Posted: 9th Dec 2017 14:38
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Any examples or docs?
I can't find any reference to it...
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Posted: 15th Dec 2017 18:50
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bump.

How?
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Posted: 18th Dec 2017 12:52
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unsigned char* memblockPointer = agk::GetMemblockPtr( memblockID );
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Posted: 19th Dec 2017 00:05
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Tier 2 only?
What about from 3rd party language?

Do I need to make use of the AGKReceive?
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Posted: 19th Dec 2017 00:15
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Which s that 3rd party?

Cause AppGameKit is run on C - then C dlls work


C# is different to C++ as much as Delphi is different to Python, oooh and there is Pascal - who on earth was he

All completely different platforms


What you writing your app on?



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Did you know that Microsoft Windows was written in Assemly and C just a bit of background history
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Quote: "unsigned char* memblockPointer = agk::GetMemblockPtr( memblockID );
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Looks like a c# or tier 2 reference (agk:

I am using delphi so wondered how I would get the reference without using agk:: / tier 2

I am assuming that the ReceiveAGKPtr() reference which I currently set to nil (because that was the only thing that worked otherwise) is needed to reference AppGameKit functions from delphi.

My Delphi ReceiveAGKPtr() function.



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Returning to this as I need to be able to send a fair bit of data back to AppGameKit from a plugin.

Either being able to pass a memblock or array pointer to my DLL so I can write stuff to it. Any ideas?
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ReceiveAGKPtr(*Ptr) << it receives a pointer to an AppGameKit internal function that gets a pointer to an AppGameKit API function, lets call this "GetAGKFunction" and you use this to get a pointer to a function like so: *Ptr = GetAGKFunction("CREATESTRING_S_L")

I dont know how it would look in delphi but in PureBasic I import the functions as C Prototypes, that looks like this:



I'v attached my complete plugin wrapper, maybe you can write a script to convert it

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Posted: 20th Feb 2020 00:09
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Thanks for the response. Maybe it helps a bit, but I'll still be poking around in the dark here.
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Posted: 20th Feb 2020 20:28
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You need to use function pointers

Maybe in delphi it would look something like (from a quick search)

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