Hey

A new plugin for 3DGamestudio is finished. Please report as much bugs as possible (might be some in it, because of some Window problems and a lot of functions).

The complete feature list:


[REGISTRY]
- Create/Remove/Open Keys
- Create/Remove/Receive Values (as string or var.. binary is not possible at the moment)
- List all subkeys, values in a (sub)key.
- Change the "region" (??) the keys are created / opened. (HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE etc.)


[MP3 FUNCTIONS]
- play over 128 different (as much as your soundcard supports ) mp3, wma, ogg, midi, wav etc. songs
- stop them
- pause and resume a song
- Change the position of the song (e.g. jump from 10 seconds to 70 seconds)
- change the speed of the song
- change the volume and the balance
- Copy the song into the memory and play it when YOU want to play it (you can even load all songs at the beginning, so you have no lags when a song starts playing.. but i won't recommand that.
- get the length (in seconds) of a song
- remove it out of the memory
- loop songs (and change looping/not looping while the song is playing)
- change the balance, volume and the frequency for all tracks
- read the ID3 tags out of a mp3 file
- play/stop/remove all tracks
- change a master volume in per cent (set all tracks 30% more quite)


[FILE FUNCTIONS]
- Write/Read chars/int/long/double/float/short/bools
- Change the File cursor position (fseek)
- write/read/append
- Insert bytes in a file
- Replace bytes in a file
- Erease bytes in a file


[ADDIONAL FEATURES]
- Show message boxes
- Remove directorys (with / without all subfolders)
- Get Imagewidth / height / format / mipLevels out of an filename
- Enable Fullscreen Dialog boxes
- Get Game and Windows absolute Path
- Open Internet Explorer with a specific website
- Open the default browser with a specific website
- Copy texts into the clipboard
- Paste texts out of the clipboard
- Clear the clipboard
- Get the CPU speed (mhz)
- Get the Host name
- Repositionate the Acknex window
- Get the max texture width/height / anisotrophy supported by your adapter
- Some string comparing functions (is string writte in lowercase/uppercaseetc.)
- Opens a File (no matter what filetyp) with the default program
- Minimize the Acknex Window
- Get/set The acknex title
- Delete Files
- Get the refresh rate of the monitor
- Open / Save Dialog
- Take screenshots of your game (save only a section of the screen)
- Get the Adapter Name
- Download Files in a differen thread (you can play while downloading)
- Get the download status and the Number of bytes to download
- Stop Downloads
- Copy files
- Get/Set file attributes (read only- system file - hidden - normal etc.)
- List all Folders / Files in a folder
- Get the Ip adress
- Get the Windows Version
- Save changed Bitmaps (pixel_for-bmap etc.). At the moment saving is only possible in *.bmp, *.dib und *.dds format


Please test as much as possible in ordner to remove every bug. If you have questions contact me under support(at)EasyParticle.de .

The Downloadlink can be found her. If this dll blows up your windows version its not my fault (sorry i have to write this There shouldn't be any bug which destroys windows.. but ok)

have fun with it.
New feature wishes are always appreciated.

TripleX

PS: sorry for my bad english in this post and in the DLL

Very nice!
Lots of features!
I especially love to features of retrieving the machine specifications. Small question, is it possible to use these specification data to compare it with the ones I descide and integrade in the game, and when the specs are too low, an error panel shows up?

(Srry for my bad englist. Just answer with yes or no .

@JvS yep of course this is possible..
A small example:

//DllGetCpuSpeed needs a bit time for calculating (1/4 second)
if(DllGetCpuSpeed() < 1000) { /*error panel */ return; }

TripleX

Thank you very much. I promise I will use your plugin in my games and keep you in the credits!

thanks

even if its not neccesarry credits would be very nice.

TripleX

Drool!!!!!!

Nice...DL it now...putting it to good use later!

Thanks X^3 !!

Whoa! Thanks for the great contribution - the features will really come in handy!!!

You've done it again, TripleX!

What a list! Extremely useful. I hadn't even finished playing with your last dll.

Thanks so much for contributing it. I'll certainly credit you where I use it.

First good work ?

I have tested the Plugin just for fun on different Magines. To get the System Informations. But I have hehe a machine with more than one Graphic Adapters and Iam sure I get the Informationen of the wrog Adapter.

I get the following:

Max Texture Width = 1024 x 1024
But the Graphiccard 3DGS Uses is the GF 6 and not the GF 2 MX on my Mainboard of my second machine.

Hope you can fix it

@all thanks for your kind words.. any more comments /feature wishes?

@XeXes hmm thats weird... because i use the 3DGS IDirect3DDevice pointer for getting the Caps structure.. -> The IDirect3DDevice pointer should be created with the better adapter (gf6) and only give me the informations about the gf6 adapter..

But I'll have a look into it.

TripleX


EDIT: Ok the wrong return values with more than 1 adapter are removed..