Developing Hybrid Gadgets for Google Desktop

If you are interested in developing gadgets for Google Desktop you may have heard of so-called hybrid gadget. It is a way to enhance your gadget with functionality that cannot be achieved in pure script and GD's API. Namely, you may write the part of the functionality, natively, as an ActiveX object and use it from the script without a need of having the typelib registered, etc.

If you would like to learn about this technique, I encourage you to read my article I have written for Google Developer Knowledge Base which is called Going Beyond Script: Developing Hybrid Gadgets. I hope you will enjoy it and that the article will prove useful. Feel free to leave here comments regarding the article.

Ajax not only for Web: Using XmlHTTPRequest in the standalone application.

If the term AJAX is familiar to you, for sure, you know that the heart of this technology is the XMLHttpRequest object. It may be used in, practically, all the modern browsers that support javascript. Although you would instantiate it in Firefox and new versions of Internet Explorer with the instruction:

var d = new XMLHttpRequest();

originally in Internet Explorer it was not a built-in JavaScript object.
In fact, the command to get XMLHttpRequest was:

var d = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP");

what reveals the fact that it was realized as an ActiveX object. Indeed, it was implemented in library called Microsoft XML which exposed COM object MSXML2.XMLHTTP. Its type library is present in msxml3.dll file in windows system folder.
So, if it is nothing more than normal ActiveX class, why not to use it in standalone application, for instance written in Delphi, to transfer data between the application and some web server.
In ActiveX-enabled languages that offer dynamic binding (like pascal) it is not more difficult that javascript code embedded in HTML. Here comes an example in Delphi, which fills a memo control with the code of the website http://www.somewhere.com:

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
d: OleVariant;
begin
d := CreateOleObject('MSXML2.XMLHttp');
d.open('get', 'http://www.somewhere.com', false, EmptyParam, EmptyParam);
d.send('');
  if (d.readyState = 4) and (d.status = 200) then
  Memo1.Lines.Text := d.responseText;
end;

Simple, isn't it?
If you prefer static binding (for example, to take advantage of code completion) you may import ActiveX type library Microsoft XML 3.0. Then, your code would look like:

uses msxml2_tlb;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
d: IXMLHTTPRequest;
begin
d := CoXMLHTTP40.Create;
d.open('get', 'http://www.somewhere.com', false, EmptyParam, EmptyParam);
d.send('');
  if (d.readyState = 4) and (d.status = 200) then
  Memo1.Lines.Text := d.responseText;
end;

You may now be thinking "Wait!, but A in Ajax stands for asynchronous, and here your are blocking program, using XMLHttpRequest synchronously". Yes, we may do it also asynchronously, but one problem arouses here - handling onreadystatechange event. In reality, it is not an event as understood in ActiveX. You may know that, in fact, JScript is incapable of sinking ActiveX events. Thus, Microsoft architects made onreadystatechange to be a property you may assign JScript function to. Therefore, what we have to assign must be, at least, the imitation of JScript routine. As you may have realized, everything in JScript is an object - internally represented by a pointer to IDispatch interface. So are functions. To execute the function you call Invoke with DISPID equal to 0 on its IDispatch.
In Delphi, therefore, JScript's function may be imitated by an object of the class derived from TInterfacedObject and implementing IDispatch interface (providing implementation for Invoke method is enough).

The full example of asynchronous HTTP request follows here:

uses comobj, msxml2_tlb;

type
 TAjaxEvenFunc = procedure (d: Variant) of object;
 TAjaxEvent = class(TInterfacedObject, IDispatch)
 private
   d: Variant;
   func: TAjaxEvenFunc;
 public
   constructor Create(const d: Variant; const func: TAjaxEvenFunc);
   function Invoke(DispID: Integer; const IID: TGUID; LocaleID: Integer;
     Flags: Word; var Params; VarResult: Pointer; ExcepInfo: Pointer;
     ArgErr: Pointer): HRESULT; stdcall;
   function GetIDsOfNames(const IID: TGUID; Names: Pointer; NameCount: Integer;
     LocaleID: Integer; DispIDs: Pointer): HRESULT; stdcall;
   function GetTypeInfo(Index: Integer; LocaleID: Integer;
     out TypeInfo): HRESULT; stdcall;
   function GetTypeInfoCount(out Count: Integer): HRESULT; stdcall;
   destructor Destroy; override;
 end;

procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
var
 d: IXMLHTTPRequest;
begin
 d := CreateOleObject('MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0') as IXMLHTTPRequest;
 d.open('get', 'http://www.onet.pl', true, EmptyParam, EmptyParam);
 d.onreadystatechange := TAjaxEvent.Create(d, EventHandl) as IDispatch;
 d.send('');
 d := nil;
end;

procedure TForm1.EventHandl(d: Variant);
begin
  if (d.readyState = 4) and (d.status = 200) then
    Memo1.Lines.Text := d.responseText;
end;

{ TAjaxEvent }

constructor TAjaxEvent.Create(const d: Variant;
 const func: TAjaxEvenFunc);
begin
 inherited Create;
 self.d := d;
 self.func := func;
end;

destructor TAjaxEvent.Destroy;
begin
 func := nil;
 d := Null;
 inherited;
end;

function TAjaxEvent.GetIDsOfNames(const IID: TGUID; Names: Pointer; NameCount,
 LocaleID: Integer; DispIDs: Pointer): HRESULT;
begin
  Result := E_NOTIMPL;
end;

function TAjaxEvent.GetTypeInfo(Index, LocaleID: Integer;
 out TypeInfo): HRESULT;
begin
 Result := E_NOTIMPL;
end;

function TAjaxEvent.GetTypeInfoCount(out Count: Integer): HRESULT;
begin
 Result := E_NOTIMPL;
end;

function TAjaxEvent.Invoke(DispID: Integer; const IID: TGUID; LocaleID: Integer;
 Flags: Word; var Params; VarResult, ExcepInfo, ArgErr: Pointer): HRESULT;
begin
 if DispID <> 0 then
  begin
    Result := E_INVALIDARG;
    exit;
  end;
 if Assigned(func) and not VarIsNull(d) then
   func(d);
end;

JScript arrays and COM objects, part 3

I have promised in my previous post that I will present also how to deal with JScript arrays in C++ code with ATL. Below, there is a code of a function, I have come up with, in C++ that gets the JScript array of integers and calculates the sum:

#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#define _C(oleop) hr = oleop; \
if (!SUCCEEDED(hr)) \
return hr;

STDMETHODIMP CHelloWorld::JSArrSum(VARIANT js_arr, LONG* Sum)
{
HRESULT hr;

/* checking if argument is an object */
if (!(js_arr.vt & VT_DISPATCH))
return E_INVALIDARG;

/* retrieving IDispatch */
IDispatch *disp = js_arr.pdispVal;
if (js_arr.vt & VT_BYREF)
disp = *(js_arr.ppdispVal);

/* getting array's length */
DISPPARAMS params;
FillMemory(¶ms, sizeof(DISPPARAMS), 0);
VARIANT res;

DISPID dl;
LPOLESTR ln = L"length";

_C(disp->GetIDsOfNames(IID_NULL, &ln, 1, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, &dl));

_C(disp->Invoke(dl, IID_NULL, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET,
¶ms, &res, NULL, NULL));

VARIANT len1;
VariantInit(&len1);

_C(VariantChangeType(&len1, &res, 0, VT_I4));
LONG len = len1.lVal;

/* summing elements */

int total = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
{
std::stringstream ss;
ss << ind =" CComBSTR(ss.str().c_str());">GetIDsOfNames(IID_NULL, &ind, 1, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, &id));
_C(disp->Invoke(id, IID_NULL, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET, ¶ms, &res, NULL, NULL));

VARIANT val1;
VariantInit(&val1);

_C(VariantChangeType(&val1, &res, 0, VT_I4));
total += val1.lVal;
}

*Sum = total;

return S_OK;
}

What it does is simply the following:

1. It is checked if an argument is some object (hopefully, a JScript array)
2. IDispatch reference of an array is retrieved from the variant.
   
3. The property length is obtained from the array's object as it is for any automation object. We receive some variant value, so we need to convert it to integer.
   
4. For each element of an array its DISPID is queried and its value received, converted to integer, and summed up.
5. It returns the sum of array's values.

It can be called from JScript as following:

var arr = new Array();
arr[0] = 10;
arr[1] = 15;
arr[2] = 2;

var obj = new ActiveXObject("ProgID.OfClass");
alert(obj.JSArrSum(arr));

JScript arrays and COM objects, part 2

In the previous post I have been discussing the scenario where we have COM object and the script in JScript and we need to interchange the array of data between them. I have demonstrated how to convert, in your JScript code, the vb-style array received from call to ActiveX object to the array native to JScript. To that, fortunately, the architects of JScript provided us with a tool - VBScript class. However, in reverse situation we don't have any object or routine in JScript scripting engine that would let us or help us converting JScript array to VBArray.

Eric Lippert in his blog states that, although he started writing code to manage conversion to VBArray, it was eventually abandoned and there is no way to do this.
And, actually, this is a truth. JScript engine does not provide us with any way to do that conversion. But why not try looking for it outside the engine but in what is by default available?
Fortunately, here our quest is successful and what we find is that there a COM object in WSH called Scripting.Dictionary. It is, well, as its name says, a dictionary, but what would be most important for you is that it has a method called Items which returns all the items in the dictionary as a VBArray object. So now, I am sure, you know what to do. Here is a code snippet of the function that converts JScript arrays into VBArray:

function GetVBArray(jsArray)
{
    var dict =
  new ActiveXObject("Scripting.Dictionary");

    for (i in jsArray)
        {
                dict.add(i, objJSArray[i]);
        }

    return dict.Items();
}

However, it may have some drawbacks like efficiency. But if it is not critical to your script it will suffice. On the other hand, if you are also an author of the COM object it would be better to just pass JScript array and deal with it in the code, wouldn't it?

If you read my previous post you probably remember that I wrote that in JScript arrays are nothing more than objects. You may also remember that JScript passes objects to automation objects as a pointer to IDispatch interface. Therefore, we may query the IDispatch object about the elements of array, can't we?

Below there is a piece of code in pascal (delphi) of the method that can both accept and process VBArrays and JScript arrays (to be precise, one-dimensional one):

procedure TSomeObject.ProcessArray(SomeArr: OleVariant);
var
  i: integer;
  ind: array [0..0] of integer;
begin
  if VarIsArray(SomeArr) then  // (1)
 begin
   for i := VarArrayLowBound(SomeArr, 1) 
      to VarArrayHighBound(SomeArr, 1) do
    begin
      ind[0] := i;
      ProcessElement(VarArrayGet(SomeArr, ind));
    end;
 end
else if VarIsType(SomeArr, VT_DISPATCH) then // (2)
 begin
   for i := 0 to SomeArr.length - 1 do
    begin
      ProcessElement(SomeArr.pop());
    end;
 end
else
     raise EOleException.Create
        ('Parameter is not an array!',
            E_INVALIDARG, '', '', 0);
end;

My example is in Delphi, but if you prefer, for instance, programming in C++ and ATL you can follow the same reasoning. However it will consume more code, since C++ semantics do not allow that you do late binding and you need to do that manually by pairs of calls to IDispatch's GetIDsOfNames and Invoke. In Delphi, we could use its magic of having IDispatch reference in Variant variable and leave it to Delphi to play with name resolving and calls to IDispatch methods.

Now let us analyze the above code. Firstly, in the if in (1) we are checking if the variant contains the traditional VBArray. If so, we process as we normally do with safe arrays. If not, we again examine our variant parameter if its content is IDispatch object. If so, it's probably the JScript array. Therefore, we can try getting the length property or get all elements by calls to pop method. You may also get the value at the given index, but it cannot be done automatically in Delphi. All you need to do is to extract an IDispatch interface, invoke GetIDsOfNames for the given index (which as you know, need not be an integer) and then Invoke retrieved DISPID to get the actual value.

That is all about arrays in JScript and COM object, I wanted to say for now. I hope somebody will find it usable. Maybe, I will also post in the future sample in C++ and ATL, stay tuned ;).

JScript arrays and COM objects, part 1

In one of the projects I am doing I needed to create the COM object that is going to be used from JavaScript. It is a well-known scenario - the JScript implementations lets programmer instantiate any COM object that is an ActiveX automation-enabled, i.e. it implements an IDispatch interface. Then, you can call any method or manipulate any property of the COM object. It looks nice and perfect as long as you are using simple data types - numbers, string. Still, there is no problem even to pass the object. Your property may be even visible as an object to the script - you may pass back the pointer to the IDispatch implementation of some object as the property and it can be treated in script almost like a native JScript object.

However, it no longer looks so bright when you need to pass to/from your COM object an array. The problem is that what you call an array in JavaScript is the completely different thing than what you call an array in your programming language you use to create your COM object. To complicate things more, an array in JScript, an array in ActiveX world and an array in "serious" programming languages like C++ or Delphi are different objects. In C, C++ and pascal it is, simply, the segment of memory which contains consecutive elements of the same certain type. In ActiveX world and Visual Basic which is set in this world, array refers to what is called variant arrays, safe arrays or VBArrays, which are bound inside the VARIANT type and are still, more or less, block of memory. On the other hand, in JScript, the array is the object that has its own properties (in fact one - length) and methods. It is not hard to guess that it is in no way compatible with safe arrays.

Your COM object will use safe arrays as it is a standard way in ActiveX. Let us, firstly, concentrate on returning arrays from the function. We will consider the object Some.Object that exposes the following method:

[id(0x000002C0)]
HRESULT GetSomeArray([out, retval] VARIANT *retArr );

which may have the following implementation in Delphi:

function TSomeObject.GetSomeArray : OleVariant;
var
vals: array [0..2] of Variant;
begin
vals[0] := 'Hello';
vals[1] := 'World';
vals[2] := 'Dude';
Result := VarArrayOf(vals);
end;

In VBScript there would be no problem with dealing with the result of this function. In JScript, however, we get something which is not familiar - it is not an array as JScript understands it.
Is there any way to convert safe arrays to JScript arrays? Fortunately, the answer is affirmative. JScript architects has provided the class VBArray which is the JScript front-end to safe arrays. We can manage it in the following way:

var someObj = new ActiveXObject("Some.Object");
var arr = (new VBArray(someObj.GetSomeArray())).toArray();

alert(arr[0]);

We have used here toArray() method to convert the VBArray to the JScript array. We could also use getItem() method to directly access element of the array. Note, that script engines, both JScript and VBScript have the limitation - they can only process safe array containing elements of type Variant. Therefore, even if you want to pass an array of strings, make the array's element to be of type Variant.

OK, it was not so bad. But, what about passing an array to the function. Here, we encounter the real problem. We will solve it in the next post.

Controlling Winamp programmatically using Delphi

I wanted in one of my project to control Winamp from application written in Delphi. It is well-known that Winamp can be controlled programmatically by finding the Winamp's window. It can be done performing the following Win32 API call:

hwnd_winamp := FindWindow('Winamp v1.x', nil);

Winamp window's class is always Winamp v1.x regardless its actual version. Once you have the handle to winamp's window you can controll it by sending to it certain messages which are specified in Winamp's SDK. However, the SDK on Winamp's website is available only for C++ developers. By googling over the Internet I have come across the translation of those header file to pascal done by Carlos Andres Osorio Gonzalez. However, it is based on the antique version of SDK and is lacking new features. I've decided to extend it, translating the lacking entries from the latest version of C++ SDK.
What I've come up with can be downloaded here or can be viewed here in browser by clicking here.

unit WAmpMsg;

interface

uses
Windows, Messages;

// Winamp frontend/plug-in control API documentation
// Delphi version
//
//
// By Krzysztof Olczyk
// http://olczyk.krzysztof.googlepages.com
// Oct 2007
//
// Based on:
//
// WAmpMsg.pas
//
// By Carlos Andres Osorio Gonzalez
// cosorio@softhome.net
// http://www.geocities.com/wplugins
// Last updated: JUL.11.1999.
//
// Based on document frontend.h, By Justin Frankel
//
// It consists of Carlos' version + messages
// present in new version of SDK for Winamp 5
//
// Comments are kept from original C++ SDK
//
// Introduction
// -----------------------
// This file describes a means to easily communicate to Winamp
// via the classic Win32 Message API.
//
// First, you find the HWND of the Winamp main window. From a plug-in
// you can easily extract this from the plug-in structure (hMainWindow,
// hwndParent, whatever). For external apps, use:
//
// var
// HWND hwnd_winamp
//
// hwnd_winamp := FindWindow('Winamp v1.x', nil);
//
// (note: I know, we're in Winamp 2.x, but it's 1.x for compatibility)
//
// Once you have the hwnd_winamp, it's a good idea to check the version
// number. To do this, you send a WM_WA_IPC message to hwnd_winamp.
// Note that WM_WA_IPC is defined as Win32's WM_USER.
//
// Note that sometimes you might want to use PostMessage instead of
// SendMessage.

const

WM_WA_IPC = WM_USER;

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

IPC_GETVERSION = 0;

// var
// version: LongInt;
//
// version := SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_GETVERSION);
//
// Version will be 0x20yx for winamp 2.yx. versions previous to Winamp 2.0
// typically (but not always) use 0x1zyx for 1.zx versions. Weird, I know.
//
// The basic format for sending messages to Winamp is:
//
// Var
// MsgResult: LongInt
//
// MsgResult := SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, command_data, command);
// (for the version check, command_data is 0).


IPC_DELETE = 101;

// SendMessage( hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_DELETE);
//
// You can use IPC_DELETE to clear Winamp's internal playlist.



IPC_STARTPLAY = 102;


// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_STARTPLAY);
//
// Using IPC_STARTPLAY is like hitting 'Play' in Winamp, mostly.



IPC_ISPLAYING = 104;


// Var
// MsgResult: LongInt
//
// MsgResult := SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_ISPLAYING);
//
// IPC_ISPLAYING returns the status of playback.
// If it returns 1, it is playing. if it returns 3, it is paused,
// if it returns 0, it is not playing.



IPC_GETOUTPUTTIME = 105;


// Var
// MsgResult: LongInt
//
// MsgResult := SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, mode, IPC_GETOUTPUTTIME);
//
// IPC_GETOUTPUTTIME returns the position in milliseconds of the
// current song (mode = 0), or the song length, in seconds (mode = 1).
// Returns -1 if not playing or error.



IPC_JUMPTOTIME = 106;

// (requires Winamp = 1.60+)
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, ms, IPC_JUMPTOTIME);
// IPC_JUMPTOTIME sets the position in milliseconds of the
// current song (approximately).
// Returns -1 if not playing, = 1 on eof, or 0 if successful



IPC_WRITEPLAYLIST = 120;

// (requires Winamp = 1.666+)
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_WRITEPLAYLIST);
//
// IPC_WRITEPLAYLIST writes the current playlist to \Winamp.m3u,
// and returns the current playlist position.
// Kinda obsoleted by some of the 2.x new stuff, but still good for when
// using a front-end (instead of a plug-in)



IPC_SETPLAYLISTPOS = 121;

// (requires Winamp 2.0+)
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, position, IPC_SETPLAYLISTPOS)
//
// IPC_SETPLAYLISTPOS sets the playlsit position to 'position'.



IPC_SETVOLUME = 122;

// (requires Winamp 2.0+)
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, volume, IPC_SETVOLUME);
//
// IPC_SETVOLUME sets the volume of Winamp (from 0-255).



IPC_SETPANNING = 123;

// (requires Winamp 2.0+)
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, panning, IPC_SETPANNING);
//
// IPC_SETPANNING sets the panning of Winamp (from 0 (left) to 255 (right)).



IPC_GETLISTLENGTH = 124;

// (requires Winamp 2.0+)
// Var
// length: LongInt
//
// length := SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_GETLISTLENGTH);
//
// IPC_GETLISTLENGTH returns the length of the current playlist, in
// tracks.



IPC_SETSKIN = 200;

// (requires Winamp 2.04+, only usable from plug-ins (not external apps))
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, WPARAM(PChar('skinname'), IPC_SETSKIN);
//
// IPC_SETSKIN sets the current skin to "skinname". Note that skinname
// can be the name of a skin, a skin .zip file, with or without path.
// If path isn't specified, the default search path is the winamp skins
// directory.



IPC_GETSKIN = 201;

// (requires Winamp 2.04+, only usable from plug-ins (not external apps))
//
// var
// skinname_buffer: PChar;
//
// GetMem(skinname_buffer, MAX_PATH);
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, WPARAM(skinname_buffer), IPC_GETSKIN);
//
// when don't need the variable skinname_buffer, call
// FreeMem(skinname_buffer, MAX_PATH);
//
//
// IPC_GETSKIN puts the directory where skin bitmaps can be found
// into skinname_buffer.
// skinname_buffer must be MAX_PATH characters in length.
// When using a .zip'd skin file, it'll return a temporary directory
// where the ZIP was decompressed.



IPC_EXECPLUG = 202;

// (requires Winamp 2.04+, only usable from plug-ins (not external apps))
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, WPARAM(PChar('vis_file.dll')), IPC_EXECPLUG);
//
// IPC_EXECPLUG executes a visualization plug-in pointed to by WPARAM.
// the format of this string can be:
// "vis_whatever.dll"
// "vis_whatever.dll, 0"; // (first mod, file in winamp plug-in dir)
// "C:\\dir\\vis_whatever.dll, 1"



IPC_GETPLAYLISTFILE = 211;

// (requires Winamp 2.04+, only usable from plug-ins (not external apps))
// var
// Name: PChar;
//
// Name := Pointer(SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, index, IPC_GETPLAYLISTFILE));
//
// IPC_GETPLAYLISTFILE gets the filename of the playlist entry [index].
// returns a pointer to it. returns NULL on error.



IPC_GETPLAYLISTTITLE = 212;

// (requires Winamp 2.04+, only usable from plug-ins (not external apps))
// var
// Name: PChar;
//
// Name := Pointer(SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, index, IPC_GETPLAYLISTTITLE));
//
// IPC_GETPLAYLISTTITLE gets the title of the playlist entry [index].
// returns a pointer to it. returns NULL on error.



IPC_GETLISTPOS = 125;

// (requires Winamp 2.05+)
// Var
// Pos: LongInt
//
// Pos := SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_GETLISTPOS);
//
// IPC_GETLISTPOS returns the playlist position. A lot like IPC_WRITEPLAYLIST
// only faster since it doesn't have to write out the list. Heh, silly me.



IPC_GETINFO = 126;

// (requires Winamp 2.05+)
// Var
// Inf: LongInt
//
// Inf := SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, mode, IPC_GETINFO);
//
// IPC_GETINFO returns info about the current playing song. The value
// it returns depends on the value of 'mode'.
// Mode Meaning
// ------------------
// 0 Samplerate (i.e. 44100)
// = 1 Bitrate (i.e. = 128)
// 2 Channels (i.e. 2)



IPC_GETEQDATA = 127;

// (requires Winamp 2.05+)
// int data=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, pos, IPC_GETEQDATA);
//
// IPC_GETEQDATA queries the status of the EQ.
// The value returned depends on what 'pos' is set to:
// Value Meaning
// ------------------
// 0-9 The = 10 bands of EQ data. 0-63 (+20db - -20db)
// = 10 The preamp value. 0-63 (+20db - -20db)
// = 11 Enabled. zero if disabled, nonzero if enabled.
// = 12 Autoload. zero if disabled, nonzero if enabled.



IPC_SETEQDATA = 128;

// (requires Winamp 2.05+)
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, pos, IPC_GETEQDATA);
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_WA_IPC, value, IPC_SETEQDATA);
//
// IPC_SETEQDATA sets the value of the last position retrieved
// by IPC_GETEQDATA.


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


// Some API calls tend to require that you send data via WM_COPYDATA
// instead of WM_USER. Such as IPC_PLAYFILE:


IPC_PLAYFILE = 100;


// var
// cds: TCOPYDATASTRUCT;
//
// cds.dwData := IPC_PLAYFILE;
// cds.lpData := PChar('file.mp3');
// cds.cbData := strlen(cds.lpData) + 1; // include space for null char
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_COPYDATA, 0, LongInt(@cds));
//
// This will play the file "file.mp3".
//



IPC_CHDIR = 103;


// var
// cds: TCOPYDATASTRUCT;
//
// cds.dwData = IPC_CHDIR;
// cds.lpData := PChar('c:\download');
// cds.cbData := strlen(cds.lpData) + 1; // include space for null char
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_COPYDATA, 0, LongInt(@cds));
//
// This will make Winamp change to the directory C:\download
//


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


// Finally there are some WM_COMMAND messages that you can use to send
// Winamp misc commands.
//
// To send these, use:
//
// SendMessage(hwnd_winamp, WM_COMMAND, command_name, 0);


WINAMP_OPTIONS_EQ = 40036; // toggles the EQ window
WINAMP_OPTIONS_PLEDIT = 40040; // toggles the playlist window
WINAMP_VOLUMEUP = 40058; // turns the volume up a little
WINAMP_VOLUMEDOWN = 40059; // turns the volume down a little
WINAMP_FFWD5S = 40060; // fast forwards 5 seconds
WINAMP_REW5S = 40061; // rewinds 5 seconds

// the following are the five main control buttons, with optionally shift
// or control pressed
// (for the exact functions of each, just try it out)
WINAMP_BUTTON1 = 40044;
WINAMP_BUTTON2 = 40045;
WINAMP_BUTTON3 = 40046;
WINAMP_BUTTON4 = 40047;
WINAMP_BUTTON5 = 40048;
WINAMP_BUTTON1_SHIFT = 40144;
WINAMP_BUTTON2_SHIFT = 40145;
WINAMP_BUTTON3_SHIFT = 40146;
WINAMP_BUTTON4_SHIFT = 40147;
WINAMP_BUTTON5_SHIFT = 40148;
WINAMP_BUTTON1_CTRL = 40154;
WINAMP_BUTTON2_CTRL = 40155;
WINAMP_BUTTON3_CTRL = 40156;
WINAMP_BUTTON4_CTRL = 40157;
WINAMP_BUTTON5_CTRL = 40158;

WINAMP_FILE_PLAY = 40029; // pops up the load file(s) box
WINAMP_OPTIONS_PREFS = 40012; // pops up the preferences
WINAMP_OPTIONS_AOT = 40019; // toggles always on top
WINAMP_HELP_ABOUT = 40041; // pops up the about box :)

(***
**
**
**
**
** Here comes stuff added by me (Krzysztof)
**
**)

IPC_ADDBOOKMARK = 129;
(* (requires Winamp 2.4+)
** Sent as a WM_COPYDATA, using IPC_ADDBOOKMARK, adds the specified
** file/url to the Winamp bookmark list.
*)
(*
In winamp 5+, we use this as a normal WM_WA_IPC and the string:

"filename\0title\0"

to notify the library/bookmark editor that a bookmark
was added. Note that using this message in this context does not
actually add the bookmark.
do not use :)
*)

IPC_RESTARTWINAMP = 135;
(* (requires Winamp 2.2)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,0,IPC_RESTARTWINAMP);
** IPC_RESTARTWINAMP will restart Winamp (isn't that obvious ? :)
*)


IPC_ISFULLSTOP = 400;
(* (requires winamp 2.7+ I think)
** ret=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,0,IPC_ISFULLSTOP);
** useful for when you're an output plugin, and you want to see
** if the stop/close is a full stop, or just between tracks.
** returns nonzero if it's full, zero if it's just a new track.
*)


IPC_INETAVAILABLE = 242;
(* (requires Winamp 2.05+)
** val=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,0,IPC_INETAVAILABLE);
** IPC_INETAVAILABLE will return 1 if the Internet connection is available for Winamp.
*)


IPC_UPDTITLE = 243;
(* (requires Winamp 2.2+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,0,IPC_UPDTITLE);
** IPC_UPDTITLE will ask Winamp to update the informations about the current title.
*)


IPC_REFRESHPLCACHE = 247;
(* (requires Winamp 2.2+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,0,IPC_REFRESHPLCACHE);
** IPC_REFRESHPLCACHE will flush the playlist cache buffer.
** (send this if you want it to go refetch titles for tracks)
*)


IPC_GET_SHUFFLE = 250;
(* (requires Winamp 2.4+)
** val=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,0,IPC_GET_SHUFFLE);
**
** IPC_GET_SHUFFLE returns the status of the Shuffle option (1 if set)
*)


IPC_GET_REPEAT = 251;
(* (requires Winamp 2.4+)
** val=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,0,IPC_GET_REPEAT);
**
** IPC_GET_REPEAT returns the status of the Repeat option (1 if set)
*)


IPC_SET_SHUFFLE = 252;
(* (requires Winamp 2.4+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,value,IPC_SET_SHUFFLE);
**
** IPC_SET_SHUFFLE sets the status of the Shuffle option (1 to turn it on)
*)


IPC_SET_REPEAT = 253;
(* (requires Winamp 2.4+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,value,IPC_SET_REPEAT);
**
** IPC_SET_REPEAT sets the status of the Repeat option (1 to turn it on)
*)


IPC_ENABLEDISABLE_ALL_WINDOWS = 259; // 0xdeadbeef to disable
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,enable?0:0xdeadbeef,IPC_MBOPENREAL);
** sending with 0xdeadbeef as the param disables all winamp windows,
** any other values will enable all winamp windows.
*)


IPC_GETWND = 260;
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** HWND h=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,IPC_GETWND_xxx,IPC_GETWND);
** returns the HWND of the window specified.
*)
IPC_GETWND_EQ = 0; // use one of these for the param
IPC_GETWND_PE = 1;
IPC_GETWND_MB = 2;
IPC_GETWND_VIDEO = 3;
IPC_ISWNDVISIBLE = 261; // same param as IPC_GETWND

(************************************************************************
***************** in-process only (WE LOVE PLUGINS)
************************************************************************)

IPC_GETHTTPGETTER = 240;
(* retrieves a function pointer to a HTTP retrieval function.
** if this is unsupported, returns 1 or 0.
** the function should be:
** int (*httpRetrieveFile)(HWND hwnd, char *url, char *file, char *dlgtitle);
** if you call this function, with a parent window, a URL, an output file, and a dialog title,
** it will return 0 on successful download, 1 on error.
*)


IPC_MBOPEN = 241;
(* (requires Winamp 2.05+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,0,IPC_MBOPEN);
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,(WPARAM)url,IPC_MBOPEN);
** IPC_MBOPEN will open a new URL in the minibrowser. if url is NULL, it will open the Minibrowser window.
*)



IPC_CHANGECURRENTFILE = 245;
(* (requires Winamp 2.05+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,(WPARAM)file,IPC_CHANGECURRENTFILE);
** IPC_CHANGECURRENTFILE will set the current playlist item.
*)


IPC_GETMBURL = 246;
(* (requires Winamp 2.2+)
* var
** buffer: array[0..4096] of char; // Urls can be VERY long
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,(WPARAM)buffer,IPC_GETMBURL);
** IPC_GETMBURL will retrieve the current Minibrowser URL into buffer.
** buffer must be at least 4096 bytes long.
*)


IPC_MBBLOCK = 248;
(* (requires Winamp 2.4+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,value,IPC_MBBLOCK);
**
** IPC_MBBLOCK will block the Minibrowser from updates if value is set to 1
*)

IPC_MBOPENREAL = 249;
(* (requires Winamp 2.4+)
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,(WPARAM)url,IPC_MBOPENREAL);
**
** IPC_MBOPENREAL works the same as IPC_MBOPEN except that it will works even if
** IPC_MBBLOCK has been set to 1
*)

IPC_ADJUST_OPTIONSMENUPOS = 280;
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** int newpos=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,(WPARAM)adjust_offset,IPC_ADJUST_OPTIONSMENUPOS);
** moves where winamp expects the Options menu in the main menu. Useful if you wish to insert a
** menu item above the options/skins/vis menus.
*)

IPC_GET_HMENU = 281;
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** HMENU hMenu=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,(WPARAM)0,IPC_GET_HMENU);
** values for data:
** 0 : main popup menu
** 1 : main menubar file menu
** 2 : main menubar options menu
** 3 : main menubar windows menu
** 4 : main menubar help menu
** other values will return NULL.
*)

IPC_GET_EXTENDED_FILE_INFO = 290; //pass a pointer to the following struct in wParam
IPC_GET_EXTENDED_FILE_INFO_HOOKABLE = 296;
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** to use, create an extendedFileInfoStruct, point the values filename and metadata to the
** filename and metadata field you wish to query, and ret to a buffer, with retlen to the
** length of that buffer, and then SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,&struct,IPC_GET_EXTENDED_FILE_INFO);
** the results should be in the buffer pointed to by ret.
** returns 1 if the decoder supports a getExtendedFileInfo method
*)
type
p_extendedFileInfoStruct = ^extendedFileInfoStruct;
extendedFileInfoStruct = packed record
filename: pchar;
metadata: pchar;
ret: pchar;
retlen: integer;
end;

const
IPC_GET_BASIC_FILE_INFO = 291; //pass a pointer to the following struct in wParam
type
p_basicFileInfoStruct = ^basicFileInfoStruct;
basicFileInfoStruct = packed record
filename: pchar;
quickCheck: integer; // set to 0 to always get, 1 for quick, 2 for default (if 2, quickCheck will be set to 0 if quick wasnot used)
length: integer;
title: pchar;
titlelen: integer;
end;

const
IPC_GET_EXTLIST = 292; //returns doublenull delimited. GlobalFree() it when done. if data is 0, returns raw extlist, if 1, returns something suitable for getopenfilename

IPC_INFOBOX = 293;
type
p_infoBoxParam = ^infoBoxParam;
infoBoxParam = packed record
parent: HWND;
filename: pchar;
end;

const
IPC_SET_EXTENDED_FILE_INFO = 294; //pass a pointer to the a extendedFileInfoStruct in wParam
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** to use, create an extendedFileInfoStruct, point the values filename and metadata to the
** filename and metadata field you wish to write in ret. (retlen is not used). and then
** SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,&struct,IPC_SET_EXTENDED_FILE_INFO);
** returns 1 if the metadata is supported
** Call IPC_WRITE_EXTENDED_FILE_INFO once you're done setting all the metadata you want to update
*)

const
IPC_WRITE_EXTENDED_FILE_INFO = 295;
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** writes all the metadata set thru IPC_SET_EXTENDED_FILE_INFO to the file
** returns 1 if the file has been successfully updated, 0 if error
*)

IPC_FORMAT_TITLE = 297;
type
p_waFormatTitle = ^waFormatTitle;
waFormatTitle = packed record
spec: pchar; // nil = default winamp spec
p: pointer;
_out: pchar;
out_len: integer;
TAGFUNC: function (tag: pchar; p: pointer): pchar cdecl; //return 0 if not found
TAGFREEFUNC: procedure (tag: pchar; p: pointer) cdecl;
end;

const

IPC_GETUNCOMPRESSINTERFACE = 331;
(* returns a function pointer to uncompress(): *)
type
uncompress = function (dest: pbyte; var destLen: LongInt; source: pbyte; sourceLen: LongInt): LongInt;
(** right out of zlib, useful for decompressing zlibbed data.
** if you pass the parm of $10100000, it will return a pointer to wa_inflate_struct to an inflate API.
*)

type
p_wa_inflate_struct = ^wa_inflate_struct;
wa_inflate_struct = packed record
inflateReset: function (strm: pointer): integer cdecl;
inflateInit_: function (strm: pointer; version: pchar; stream_size: integer): integer cdecl;
inflate: function (strm: pointer; flush: boolean): integer cdecl;
inflateEnd: function (strm: pointer): integer cdecl;
crc32: function (crc: cardinal; buffer: pbyte; len: cardinal): cardinal cdecl;
end;

const
IPC_ADD_PREFS_DLG = 332;
IPC_REMOVE_PREFS_DLG = 333;
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** to use, allocate a prefsDlgRec structure (either on the heap or some global
** data, but NOT on the stack), initialze the members:
** hInst to the DLL instance where the resource is located
** dlgID to the ID of the dialog,
** proc to the window procedure for the dialog
** name to the name of the prefs page in the prefs.
** where to 0 (eventually we may add more options)
** then, SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,&prefsRec,IPC_ADD_PREFS_DLG);
**
** you can also IPC_REMOVE_PREFS_DLG with the address of the same prefsRec,
** but you shouldn't really ever have to.
**
*)
IPC_OPENPREFSTOPAGE = 380; // pass an id of a builtin page, or a &prefsDlgRec of prefs page to open

type
p_prefsDlgRec = ^prefsDlgRec;
prefsDlgRec = packed record
hInst: THandle;
dlgID: integer;
proc: pointer;
name: pchar;
where: integer; // 0 for options, 1 for plugins, 2 for skins, 3 for bookmarks, 4 for prefs
_id: integer;
next: p_prefsDlgRec;
end;

const

IPC_GETINIFILE = 334; // returns a pointer to winamp.ini
IPC_GETINIDIRECTORY = 335; // returns a pointer to the directory to put config files in (if you dont want to use winamp.ini)

IPC_SPAWNBUTTONPOPUP = 361; // param =
// 0 = eject
// 1 = previous
// 2 = next
// 3 = pause
// 4 = play
// 5 = stop

IPC_OPENURLBOX = 360; // pass a HWND to a parent, returns a HGLOBAL that needs to be freed with GlobalFree(), if successful
IPC_OPENFILEBOX = 362; // pass a HWND to a parent
IPC_OPENDIRBOX = 363; // pass a HWND to a parent

// pass an HWND to a parent. call this if you take over the whole UI so that the dialogs are not appearing on the
// bottom right of the screen since the main winamp window is at 3000x3000, call again with NULL to reset
IPC_SETDIALOGBOXPARENT = 364;



// pass 0 for a copy of the skin HBITMAP
// pass 1 for name of font to use for playlist editor likeness
// pass 2 for font charset
// pass 3 for font size
IPC_GET_GENSKINBITMAP = 503;


IPC_GET_EMBEDIF = 505; // pass an embedWindowState
// returns an HWND embedWindow(embedWindowState *); if the data is NULL, otherwise returns the HWND directly
type
p_embedWindowState = ^embedWindowState;
embedWindowState = packed record
me: HWND;
flags: integer;
r: TRect;
user_ptr: pointer; // for application use
extra_data: array [0..63] of integer; // for internal winamp use
end;

const
EMBED_FLAGS_NORESIZE = 1; // set this bit in embedWindowState.flags to keep window from being resizable
EMBED_FLAGS_NOTRANSPARENCY = 2; // set this bit in embedWindowState.flags to make gen_ff turn transparency off for this wnd


IPC_EMBED_ENUM = 532;

type
p_embedEnumStruct = ^embedEnumStruct;
embedEnumStruct = packed record
enumProc: function (ws: p_embedWindowState; param: p_embedEnumStruct): cardinal cdecl;
user_data: integer; // or more :)
end;


// pass
const
IPC_EMBED_ISVALID = 533;

IPC_CONVERTFILE = 506;
(* (requires Winamp 2.92+)
** Converts a given file to a different format (PCM, MP3, etc...)
** To use, pass a pointer to a waFileConvertStruct struct
** This struct can be either on the heap or some global
** data, but NOT on the stack. At least, until the conversion is done.
**
** eg: SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,&myConvertStruct,IPC_CONVERTFILE);
**
** Return value:
** 0: Can't start the conversion. Look at myConvertStruct->error for details.
** 1: Conversion started. Status messages will be sent to the specified callbackhwnd.
** Be sure to call IPC_CONVERTFILE_END when your callback window receives the
** IPC_CB_CONVERT_DONE message.
*)
type
p_convertFileStruct = ^convertFileStruct;
convertFileStruct = packed record
sourcefile: pchar; // "c:\\source.mp3"
destfilr: pchar; // "c:\\dest.pcm"
destformat: array[0..8] of integer; // like 'PCM ',srate,nch,bps
callbackwnd: HWND; // window that will receive the IPC_CB_CONVERT notification messages
error: pchar; //if IPC_CONVERTFILE returns 0, the reason will be here
bytes_done: integer; //you can look at both of these values for speed statistics
bytes_total: integer;
bytes_out: integer;

killswitch: integer; // don't set it manually, use IPC_CONVERTFILE_END
extra_data: array [0..63] of integer; // for internal winamp use
end;

const
IPC_CONVERTFILE_END = 507;
(* (requires Winamp 2.92+)
** Stop/ends a convert process started from IPC_CONVERTFILE
** You need to call this when you receive the IPC_CB_CONVERTDONE message or when you
** want to abort a conversion process
**
** eg: SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,&myConvertStruct,IPC_CONVERTFILE_END);
**
** No return value
*)

type
p_convertConfigStruct = ^convertConfigStruct;
convertConfigStruct = packed record
hwndParent: HWND;
format: integer;
hwndConfig: HWND;
extra_data: array[0..7] of integer;
end;

const
IPC_CONVERT_CONFIG = 508;
IPC_CONVERT_CONFIG_END = 509;

type
p_converterEnumFmtStruct = ^converterEnumFmtStruct;
converterEnumFmtStruct = packed record
enumProc: procedure (user_data: integer; desc: pchar; fourcc: integer) cdecl;
user_data: integer;
end;

const
IPC_CONVERT_CONFIG_ENUMFMTS = 510;
(* (requires Winamp 2.92+)
*)


type
p_burnCDStruct = ^burnCDStruct;
burnCDStruct = packed record
cdletter: char;
playlist_file: pchar;
callback_hwnd: HWND;
error: pchar;
end;


const
IPC_BURN_CD = 511;
(* (requires Winamp 5.0+)
*)

type
p_convertSetPriority = ^convertSetPriority;
convertSetPriority = packed record
cfs: p_convertFileStruct;
priority: integer;
end;

const
IPC_CONVERT_SET_PRIORITY = 512;

type
p_waHookTitleStruct = ^waHookTitleStruct;
waHookTitleStruct = packed record
filename: pchar;
title: pchar;
length: integer;
force_useformatting: LongBool;
end;

const
// return TRUE if you hook this
IPC_HOOK_TITLES = 850;


IPC_GETSADATAFUNC = 800;
// 0: returns a char *export_sa_get() that returns 150 bytes of data
// 1: returns a export_sa_setreq(int want);

IPC_ISMAINWNDVISIBLE = 900;


IPC_SETPLEDITCOLORS = 920;

type
p_waSetPlColorsStruct = ^waSetPlColorsStruct;
waSetPlColorsStruct = packed record
numElems: integer;
elems: PINT;
bm: HBITMAP;
end;

const
// the following IPC use waSpawnMenuParms as parameter
IPC_SPAWNEQPRESETMENU = 933;
IPC_SPAWNFILEMENU = 934; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNOPTIONSMENU = 935; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNWINDOWSMENU = 936; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNHELPMENU = 937; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNPLAYMENU = 938; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNPEFILEMENU = 939; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNPEPLAYLISTMENU = 940; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNPESORTMENU = 941; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNPEHELPMENU = 942; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNMLFILEMENU = 943; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNMLVIEWMENU = 944; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNMLHELPMENU = 945; //menubar
IPC_SPAWNPELISTOFPLAYLISTS = 946;

type
p_waSpawnMenuParms = ^waSpawnMenuParms;
waSpawnMenuParms = packed record
wnd: HWND;
xpos, ypos: integer;
end;

// waSpawnMenuParms2 is used by the menubar submenus
p_waSpawnMenuParms2 = ^waSpawnMenuParms2;
waSpawnMenuParms2 = packed record
wnd: HWND;
xpos, ypos: integer;
width, height: integer;
end;

const
// system tray sends this (you might want to simulate it)
WM_WA_SYSTRAY = WM_USER+1;

// input plugins send this when they are done playing back
WM_WA_MPEG_EOF = WM_USER+1;



//// video stuff

IPC_IS_PLAYING_VIDEO = 501; // returns >1 if playing, 0 if not, 1 if old version (so who knows):)
IPC_GET_IVIDEOOUTPUT = 500; // see below for IVideoOutput interface

function VIDEO_MAKETYPE(A, B, C, D: Cardinal): Cardinal;

const
VIDUSER_SET_INFOSTRING = $1000;
VIDUSER_GET_VIDEOHWND = $1001;
VIDUSER_SET_VFLIP = $1002;

type
VideoOutput = class;
Subsitem = class

end;

p_YV12_PLANE = ^YV12_PLANE;
YV12_PLANE = packed record
baseAddr: pbyte;
rowBytes: LongInt;
end;

p_YV12_PLANES = ^YV12_PLANES;
YV12_PLANES = packed record
y, u, v: YV12_PLANE;
end;


VideoMsgCallback = function (token: pointer; hwnd: HWND; uMsg, wParam, lParam: Cardinal): Cardinal;

VideoOutput = class
procedure _cpp_destructor() cdecl; virtual; abstract;
function open(w, h, vflip: integer; aspectration: double; fmt: cardinal): integer cdecl; virtual; abstract;
procedure setcallback(msgcallback: VideoMsgCallback; token: pointer) cdecl; virtual; abstract;
procedure draw(frame: pointer) cdecl; virtual; abstract;
procedure drawSubtitle(item: SubsItem) cdecl; virtual; abstract;
procedure showStatusMsg(text: pchar) cdecl; virtual; abstract;
function get_latency(): integer cdecl; virtual; abstract;
procedure notifyBufferState(bufferstate: integer) cdecl; virtual; abstract;
function extended(param1: integer; param2: integer; param3: integer): integer; virtual; abstract;
end;

// these messages are callbacks that you can grab by subclassing the winamp window
const
// wParam =
IPC_CB_WND_EQ = 0; // use one of these for the param
IPC_CB_WND_PE = 1;
IPC_CB_WND_MB = 2;
IPC_CB_WND_VIDEO = 3;
IPC_CB_WND_MAIN = 4;

IPC_CB_ONSHOWWND = 600;
IPC_CB_ONHIDEWND = 601;

IPC_CB_GETTOOLTIP = 602;

IPC_CB_MISC = 603;
IPC_CB_MISC_TITLE = 0;
IPC_CB_MISC_VOLUME = 1; // volume/pan
IPC_CB_MISC_STATUS = 2;
IPC_CB_MISC_EQ = 3;
IPC_CB_MISC_INFO = 4;
IPC_CB_MISC_VIDEOINFO = 5;

IPC_CB_CONVERT_STATUS = 604; // param value goes from 0 to 100 (percent)
IPC_CB_CONVERT_DONE = 605;

IPC_ADJUST_FFWINDOWSMENUPOS = 606;
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** int newpos=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,(WPARAM)adjust_offset,IPC_ADJUST_FFWINDOWSMENUPOS);
** moves where winamp expects the freeform windows in the menubar windows main menu. Useful if you wish to insert a
** menu item above extra freeform windows.
*)

IPC_ISDOUBLESIZE = 608;

IPC_ADJUST_FFOPTIONSMENUPOS = 609;
(* (requires Winamp 2.9+)
** int newpos=SendMessage(hwnd_winamp,WM_WA_IPC,(WPARAM)adjust_offset,IPC_ADJUST_FFOPTIONSMENUPOS);
** moves where winamp expects the freeform preferences item in the menubar windows main menu. Useful if you wish to insert a
** menu item above preferences item.
*)

IPC_GETTIMEDISPLAYMODE = 610; // returns 0 if displaying elapsed time or 1 if displaying remaining time

IPC_SETVISWND = 611; // param is hwnd, setting this allows you to receive ID_VIS_NEXT/PREVOUS/RANDOM/FS wm_commands
ID_VIS_NEXT = 40382;
ID_VIS_PREV = 40383;
ID_VIS_RANDOM = 40384 ;
ID_VIS_FS = 40389 ;
ID_VIS_CFG = 40390 ;
ID_VIS_MENU = 40391 ;

IPC_GETVISWND = 612; // returns the vis cmd handler hwnd
IPC_ISVISRUNNING = 613;
IPC_CB_VISRANDOM = 628 ;// param is status of random

IPC_SETIDEALVIDEOSIZE = 614; // sent by winamp to winamp, trap it if you need it. width=HIWORD(param), height=LOWORD(param)

IPC_GETSTOPONVIDEOCLOSE = 615;
IPC_SETSTOPONVIDEOCLOSE = 616 ;

type
p_transAccelStruct = ^transAccelStruct;
transAccelStruct = packed record
hwnd: HWND;
uMsg: Integer;
wParam, lParam: Integer;
end;

const
IPC_TRANSLATEACCELERATOR = 617;

type
p_windowCommand = ^windowCommand;
windowCommand = packed record
cmd, x, y, align: Integer;
end;


const
IPC_CB_ONTOGGLEAOT = 618;

IPC_GETPREFSWND = 619;

IPC_SET_PE_WIDTHHEIGHT = 620; // data is a pointer to a POINT structure that holds width & height

IPC_GETLANGUAGEPACKINSTANCE = 621;

IPC_CB_PEINFOTEXT = 622; // data is a string, ie: "04:21/45:02"

IPC_CB_OUTPUTCHANGED = 623; // output plugin was changed in config

IPC_GETOUTPUTPLUGIN = 625;

IPC_SETDRAWBORDERS = 626;
IPC_DISABLESKINCURSORS = 627;
IPC_CB_RESETFONT = 629;

IPC_IS_FULLSCREEN = 630; // returns 1 if video or vis is in fullscreen mode
IPC_SET_VIS_FS_FLAG = 631; // a vis should send this message with 1/as param to notify winamp that it has gone to or has come back from fullscreen mode

IPC_SHOW_NOTIFICATION = 632;

IPC_GETSKININFO = 633;

// >>>>>>>>>>> Next is 634

IPC_PLCMD = 1000;

PLCMD_ADD = 0;
PLCMD_REM = 1;
PLCMD_SEL = 2;
PLCMD_MISC = 3;
PLCMD_LIST = 4;

IPC_MBCMD = 1001;

MBCMD_BACK = 0;
MBCMD_FORWARD = 1;
MBCMD_STOP = 2;
MBCMD_RELOAD = 3;
MBCMD_MISC = 4;

IPC_VIDCMD = 1002;

VIDCMD_FULLSCREEN = 0;
VIDCMD_1X = 1;
VIDCMD_2X = 2;
VIDCMD_LIB = 3;
VIDPOPUP_MISC = 4;

IPC_MBURL = 1003; //sets the URL
IPC_MBGETCURURL = 1004; //copies the current URL into wParam (have a 4096 buffer ready)
IPC_MBGETDESC = 1005 ;//copies the current URL description into wParam (have a 4096 buffer ready)
IPC_MBCHECKLOCFILE = 1006; //checks that the link file is up to date (otherwise updates it). wParam=parent HWND
IPC_MBREFRESH = 1007; //refreshes the "now playing" view in the library
IPC_MBGETDEFURL = 1008; //copies the default URL into wParam (have a 4096 buffer ready)

IPC_STATS_LIBRARY_ITEMCNT = 1300; // updates library count status

// IPC 2000-3000 reserved for freeform messages, see gen_ff/ff_ipc.h
IPC_FF_FIRST = 2000;
IPC_FF_LAST = 3000;

IPC_GETDROPTARGET = 3001;

IPC_PLAYLIST_MODIFIED = 3002; // sent to main wnd whenever the playlist is modified

IPC_PLAYING_FILE = 3003 ;// sent to main wnd with the file as parm whenever a file is played
IPC_FILE_TAG_MAY_HAVE_UPDATED = 3004; // sent to main wnd with the file as parm whenever a file tag might be updated


IPC_ALLOW_PLAYTRACKING = 3007;
// send nonzero to allow, zero to disallow

IPC_HOOK_OKTOQUIT = 3010; // return 0 to abort a quit, nonzero if quit is OK

IPC_WRITECONFIG = 3011; // pass 2 to write all, 1 to write playlist + common, 0 to write common+less common

// pass a string to be the name to register, and returns a value > 65536, which is a unique value you can use
// for custom WM_WA_IPC messages.
IPC_REGISTER_WINAMP_IPCMESSAGE = 65536 ;


implementation

function VIDEO_MAKETYPE(A, B, C, D: Cardinal): Cardinal;
begin
Result := A or (B shl 8) or (C shl 16) or (D shl 24);
end;

end.

Enjoy it, but I cannot guarantee that it is free of errors.

My website rebuilt

Today I've spent some time to rebuild my website. I've changed its layout into three-column style and took care to make all the subpage to be of the same style.
Now, menu is on the left-hand side, some sponsored links on the right-hand side and the content goes between.
There is also, as a new feature, Google search available for the web and my site. (You can find it just beneath the menu).
If you have sometime, feel free to explore it now. I hope you will enjoy it.

New version of MultiDesktop & Google Desktop hybrid gadgets

Yesterday, I have released on my website new version of my Google Desktop gadget called MultiDesktop. The aim of a gadget is to provide the user with possibility of having multiple virtual desktop (feature well-known to those of you who are or used to be Linux users). Unlike other software of this type it does not limit the user to 4 desktop and each desktop may have its name to easily identify them. In the new version, created desktops are kept between sessions and there is no need to re-create desktops each time you reboot your computer. For full list of features visit MultiDesktop web page.

How did I develop MultiDesktop?

At the first glance, MultiDesktop may appear to be standard simple Google Gadget. It is packaged inside the .gg file like other gadget. It is a standard format for distributing Google Gadgets. It is nothing more than ZIP file containing XML file specifying the static presentational aspects of gadgets, jscript source code defining its dynamics and plenty of resource files with graphics and internationalized text strings. For more details visit Google Desktop SDK page.

However, in case of MultiDesktop, JScript is used only to build the GUI and front-end to the engine written in C++. It is possible to be done in Google Desktop due to what Google calls hybrid gadget. You can write a DLL library being a COM server, attach it to the Gadget and then instantiate any object defined that implements an IDispatch interface. It can be easily implemented in Microsoft Visual C++ using ATL library or in Delphi.
Note: Remember to set your version to major = 0xFFFF and minor = 0xFFFF. Otherwise, your hybrid engine will not work. To do so in ATL make sure that you have 0xFFFF as two last parameters of IDispatchImpl class. For example, in case of MultiDesktop it is:

public IDispatchImpl<IMDInternal, &IID_IMDInternal, &LIBID_mdengineLib, /*wMajor =*/ 0xFFFF, /*wMinor =*/ 0xFFFF>,

Hello and Welcome to my blog!

This is the very first post I am going to write here.
I've just started the blog where I am going to put posts with topics more or less connected with programming. I will post some solutions I will have come up with, some comments, some thoughts on programming, announce my new projects, share few words on how they are made, etc.

I hope you will enjoy the content of this blog and return here to read new post.
Any comments you may have are very welcome.

Enjoy!