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Rob K
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Posted: 7th Jun 2003 02:12
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This plugin converts the given scancode (as given by the scancode() command) to its ASCII equivilent.

Useful as it saves you having to create a huge list of equivilents and it considers the keyboard layout (eg: French, UK, US) as well as the shift key etc.

ascii_equiv = SCANCODE TO ASCII(scancode())

or for lazy typists...

ascii_equiv = SCTOASCII(scancode())

The DLL is 10KB in size (compresses to 5KB).

Apologies if anyone has released a similar plugin but I was unable to find one so I wrote this

http://www.realgametools.net/forums/attachments/sctoascii.zip
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Mattman
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Posted: 7th Jun 2003 23:04
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Hey Rob,

I have a quick question for ya. How do you make these "plug-ins"? Isn't it like a patch? In the newcomer's corner I tried to help a guy with patches. Could u help us?

thx

---Mattman
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Rob K
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 00:57
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I write them with Delphi 6. I believe you can get the Personal Edition for free, certainly the one I am using came free with PCPlus.

They are not "patches", but DLLs (which are like exes but their functions can be accessed by other programs / DLLs) which DBP can use like normal DBP commands. When it compiles the program, if you use a command contained in this DLL, it packs it into the exe and replaces your written command, eg "SCTOASCII", with a link to your DLL command.

The Delphi source code looks something like this:



The project.res file is automatically created, the project.rc file tells DBP which DB code command (MY FUNCTION) links up with which DLL command (MyFunction)

project.rc:



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andrew11
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 03:25 Edited at: 8th Jun 2003 03:25
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Can't you just do this?



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Mattman
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 07:32
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So DBP can use 'em, but not DBC?

---Mattman
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Rob K
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 13:27
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@andrew

Yes that works fine as well, but there are a few occassions where I have found the need to use the ScanCode instead of Inkey$.

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IanM
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@Mattman - you can use DLLs with DBC, but only with the enhancement pack, and accessing them using the CALL DLL function. DBPro has the advantage that user-written DLLs will actually be treated as equivalent to the DBPro core libraries and can be called as built-in instructions.
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Mattman
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Posted: 8th Jun 2003 18:00
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Kool, I have enhancement pack!

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