by npbenjohnson » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:43 pm
My goal is to use C# instead of the vb/jscript, but because portable MM doesn't register COM, I need another way to get access to the MM Interfaces.
Tried and failed:
1. Using VBScript GetObject, to access a ComVisible dll and pass the needed objects. This idea was from a SO post, but it doesn't look like vbscript can actually load objects/classes from dlls, it wants an automation object (whatever that is)
2. Use midl to change the idl into a tlb and generate an interop dll with tlbimporter. MIDL has a lot of issues with the idl file, and I don't know anything about low level linking, so I don't know if they are fixable.
3.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... pplication states
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extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) void MMSetInterfaceCookie(DWORD cookie)
exists in a dll as a possible COM alternative, which I'm guessing DllImport could be used against, but it doesn't say which dll, or have any usage information about the method.
4.
http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=9454 using mediamonkeycom.exe /regserver throws an error, I'm guess it's because I need to run it as admin, which would mean it's not really a workaround unless mediamonkey happens to be run with administrative privileges so that VBScript can call that command.
5. It looks like maybe
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 19&t=73936 has it working, but it's in delphi, and I'm not familiar enough with delphi or c++ to convert/use it
Let me know if you've got this working, have any ideas, or if I'm way off on any of these comments
My goal is to use C# instead of the vb/jscript, but because portable MM doesn't register COM, I need another way to get access to the MM Interfaces.
Tried and failed:
1. Using VBScript GetObject, to access a ComVisible dll and pass the needed objects. This idea was from a SO post, but it doesn't look like vbscript can actually load objects/classes from dlls, it wants an automation object (whatever that is)
2. Use midl to change the idl into a tlb and generate an interop dll with tlbimporter. MIDL has a lot of issues with the idl file, and I don't know anything about low level linking, so I don't know if they are fixable.
3. http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/SDBApplication states [code]extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) void MMSetInterfaceCookie(DWORD cookie)[/code] exists in a dll as a possible COM alternative, which I'm guessing DllImport could be used against, but it doesn't say which dll, or have any usage information about the method.
4. http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=9454 using mediamonkeycom.exe /regserver throws an error, I'm guess it's because I need to run it as admin, which would mean it's not really a workaround unless mediamonkey happens to be run with administrative privileges so that VBScript can call that command.
5. It looks like maybe http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=73936 has it working, but it's in delphi, and I'm not familiar enough with delphi or c++ to convert/use it
Let me know if you've got this working, have any ideas, or if I'm way off on any of these comments
