Spinoff: Uncle Avatar's Scriptor, C++ and Python Time...

[OvermindDL1]

Don't forget with the scriptor, you can come up with a hybrid of C++ and Scriptor code. The source code for the scriptor's dll is available and can be tweeked. If you have functions that are common for you (say look for a pod x being built than do this..that...then this), you could have that written in C++ into the DLL Scriptor's common code. This is basicly how FE's portals are working, the code is in the base C++ code for the scriptor.

And in my Python scriptor you can arbitrarilly load other dll's that have helper functions or what-not all you want, without needing to change the base scriptor dll and possible breaking other scripts if you are not careful and reuse it later.
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[Sonic]

I don't see how you would break other scripts. The scriptor lets you choose your 'base' DLL code. So your custom code will only be applied to the DLL you choose to compile with that code. Thus, my night light map is not affected by my custom code in my theory x/y map dll which used custom code.

[Nielk1]

And in my Python scriptor you can arbitrarilly load other dll's that have helper functions or what-not all you want, without needing to change the base scriptor dll and possible breaking other scripts if you are not careful and reuse it later.
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I want to do that in C++. I was thinking about making some DLLs to do things like -anti shield towers- that monitored for any object of a classlabel (new ODF inheritance would let me fake a new class label) and then threw the appropriate things into vectors, maps, or arrays and processed them later.


ALSO, after the split my post about making a "Stalker Nielk1's DLL Time" looks odd and misplaced

EDIT: I should state I am proficient in Java, but can get around many languages, which is why something obvious might not occur to me.

EDIT2:
So far I am editing existing DLLs:

I should note that was before I finally found the toggle for release build instead of debug build and stopped the odd debug over spawn that caused issues likes lost AI units and 1 bot meaning 10, all in the same spacial coordinate.

[OvermindDL1]

By that I meant if it reused that code, but some alteration was made that was not accounted for when used later on.  I prefer explicit rather then implicit as coding terminology goes.
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[Nielk1]

How can I program a mission DLL in C++, and have it call in other compiled mission DLL functions? Or is that imposable in C++ and I am thinking about Java's recompiled classes?

EDIT:
I'm just messing around now:

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void instantMission::Execute(void)
{
ElapsedGameTime++;
player=GetPlayerHandle();
turn_counter++;
DoGenericStrategy();

DoNielk1();
}
void instantMission::DoNielk1()
{
if(n1QuakeOn)
{
if(GetCurAmmo(GetPlayerHandle()) == 0)
{
StopEarthQuake();
n1QuakeOn = false;
}else{
UpdateEarthQuake(GetCurAmmo(GetPlayerHandle()));
}
}else{
n1QuakeOn = true;
}
}

[OvermindDL1]

Just be sure to expose the other functions/classes/whatever from the other dll as per the normal library ways (external definition file, ccall exposing, ordinal link, etc... there are a few ways to do so), then just link it in to the dll that is going to use it, quite simple.

Do remember, pretty much nothing is impossible in C/C++, java is far far far more restrictive then C/C++ could ever be.
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[Nielk1]

external definition file, ccall exposing, ordinal link, etc...

OK, you just threw terms at me that I don't yet begin to pretend to understand. I guess the correct question would be, how would YOU do it? I want it to be simple enough that anyone making a DLL can take my helper DLL and easily include it, then just have to send it the right info.

--

So, I would need to make a DLL from scratch, somehow include it into the BZ2 DLL, and then call its functions?
I am so used to just creating an instance of a precompiled Java class and then using it, how exactly do I go about using the DLL?

I take it that to make the DLL I just need a simple blank project set to compile as a DLL, and then the functions that are public are accessible. There might be a template in Visual Studio for DLL, I am not sure. The most I have done in C++ is make console APPS.

[Nielk1]

I'm just toying around atm, this was a fun bit of code for visual effect:

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int team1color = 0;
bool team1colorup = true;

void instantMission::Execute(void)
{
...
TeamColorFun();
}

void instantMission::TeamColorFun(void)
{
if(team1colorup)
{
team1color+=5;
if(team1color>=255)
{
team1colorup = false;
}
}else{
team1color-=5;
if(team1color<=0)
{
team1colorup = true;
}
}
SetTeamColor(1, team1color, 255-team1color, 0);
}

[OvermindDL1]

Export functions as normal, set them to extern "C" calling convention (if you start up a new shared DLL project in VisualStudio you can see examples of that) and declspec them to be visible (also shown in a new shared dll project).  To import into another just loadlibrary (look that up in the VisualStudio help, good example there) and load the function by name from that and assign it to a function pointer (also demonstrated on that msdn page).  That would be the easiest way to do it if you are only dealing with a few and you do not want to hard link those files together (and it lets you see the return value of loadlibrary to see if it exists, if it doesn't then you can turn off certain features that it would have given, else if it returns a good value then the library is available and you can have special stuff happen).
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[bigbadbogie]

... and you expect us numnuts to be able to do c++?? 

[OvermindDL1]

Everything I mentioned is C, not C++ (well, the extern "C" is C++, telling it to make the calling convention of that function/variable/etc... C style, thus it is not there for C...).

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[bigbadbogie]

... and you expect us numnuts to be able to do c++?? 

i quote myself

[OvermindDL1]

Well Nielk1 was the one who asked, as such I was responding to his question.

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[Nielk1]

Ah, found the add object function... Should have looked at the interface of the DLLBase class I was inheriting in the first place. DOIY! This solves a lot of headaches.

This is kinda fun now, I love working in looped logic like this.

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

Is C different then C#? Just though I'd ask for clarification. I'm just getting started with C++, but the Dark Basic GDK looks very interesting for gaming applications. I've also come across a few code snippets that I'd like to experiment to help me get a clue about how C++ logically works. I'm also hoping that C++ eventually reveals some of it's cool little secrets. I guess it's more or less having a lot of patients and then connecting the dots as they reveal themselves...BNG