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- - Miranda Module API for Borland Delphi, FreePascal -
-
- These include files allow you to write modules to extend Miranda 
- Older versions of these files 
- limited support for FPC, versions & compilers are :
-
- Borland Delphi 2.0 thru 6.0
- FreePascal 1.0.4, 1.0.6 
-
- You can now create modules for Miranda (v0.1.2.2) and use
- new stuff like Netlib! though you can still write for
- the current stable release (v0.1.2.1) but you'll have to
- be aware of version dependant things.
-
- Worry not though, every service/event is marked with a version
- code if it's not present in older Miranda versions.
-
- Be warned, this is a brand new porting though it has borrowed
- from older ports (see CVS, oh this is viewCVS? mmm, cheese.) 
- Things are presented in a more Delphi esque than a C esque manner
- so if you feel confused refer to the C header.
-
- A word of warning, don't try to compile /delphiplugins examples
- with these include files and expect it to work,
-
-
- Include files use the {$include } syntax and will never work
- as units.
-
- -- FPC support? --
-
- FPC is now properly supported, but you may need to use -SD -S2
- command line switches (for Delphi, BP7 mode) remember to use -Fi
- and -Fu to give the path to these files or use {$UNITPATH} and {$INCLUDEPATH}
-
- These include files don't any FPC stuff like macros
- and inlined functions.
-
- -- Things to be aware of --
-
- This version is not yet directly supported, if you want to learn
- the API look at the CVS tree for documentation on plugins, as well
- as guidelines and examples of the general structure of Miranda.
-
- This is my cop out for now, I'll try to write a more general 'guide' later
- on.
-
- -
-
- Miranda uses a manifest to allow COMCTRL v6 to be loaded on XP,
- This causes problems with image lists with Delphi (there are work arounds)
- see borland.com for the article.
-
- You may want to refuse to load on XP or try to use Miranda's API to work with
- imagelists and load images from resource as bitmaps (ugh)
-
- - lstrcat, lstrcpy
-
- I've used the Windows API calls to these C functions over Delphi's RTL
- because SysUtils.pas just adds a bloat.
-
- - *If* you use SysUtils.pas
-
- Delphi loads OLE for variant support, it maybe advisable to unload
- the DLL as soon as you start, this maybe a problem though, since Miranda
- also uses OLE for extended image support, it doesn't however keep
- it loaded all the time.
-
- There should be no problem in just decrementing the reference count
- to the DLL and it'll unload if you were the only reference.
-
- if however you're using variants in your code, blergh.
-
- -- How you get it to work --
-
- see testdll.dpr, it won't do much but it'll show a pretty description in the
- options dialog (oh impressive!)
-
- To bring in new files, just use {$include that_file_you_want.inc}
- If other include files are needed by the include file you bring in, 
- it'll try to include it itself.
-
- Of course you need to add the path to where the .inc files are to the project's
- search path, or if you compile via the command line, use -U and -I 
- -U is needed because m_globaldefs.pas is a unit.
-
- Each header file is marked with "UNITDEP" which will tell you which units
- it requires.
-
- All files that require the PLUGINLINK structure require m_globaldefs.pas
- (this is all the C header files that use such macros!)