Unicode Programming Help Visual C and Objective C :)

[LB]

Which SDK are you using?

In your EDITDATA structure, you ar storing pointers. These pointers will be written to a file (the MFA, the EXE, etc.) and the memory they pointed to will be long gone. You have to actually store the data in the structure, not just point to it.

You can either have a fixed-length character array (which I suggest not doing), or you can ask MMF2 to dynamically resize the editdata to suit the length of the data you need to store in it (which there is an example of in SetpropValue).

In my fork of EDIF, I've streamlined the process and made it much easier to deal with:
https://github.com/LB--/windows-edif...e/EditData.hpp
https://github.com/LB--/windows-edif...Properties.cpp
The commented out examples show you what you have to do to properly set it up. Like I said, it's like writing to a memory mapped file.

[Looki]

This really needs to be dealt with in MMF3. The current way is ridiculous by today's standards - if we could just read/write to editdata in a stream fashion it would be so much sweeter (of course someone could write a wrapper for the current one, but meh!)...

[Tim]

LB I'm using EDIF.
Would it be easier if you could make a simple dummy extension (preferably in EDIF :P ) that demonstrates using properties, serializing them, deserializing them, etc because I can't get it to work no matter how much I try :/

And while I agree completely with you Looki, I honestly think someone should just make a nicer SDK with those features (maybe released with MMF3 that supports compiling for MMF2 -> 3?). Just ideas though as I would have no idea how to create a nicer SDK :P

Tim

[LB]

This really needs to be dealt with in MMF3. The current way is ridiculous by today's standards - if we could just read/write to editdata in a stream fashion it would be so much sweeter (of course someone could write a wrapper for the current one, but meh!)...

I've been planning on doing that with EDIF, but I haven't had time. It's definitely on my list of things to do, though - I've already researched how to implement a C++ stream, now I just need to figure out how to make it interact with the MMF2 SDK.

LB I'm using EDIF.
Would it be easier if you could make a simple dummy extension (preferably in EDIF :P ) that demonstrates using properties, serializing them, deserializing them, etc because I can't get it to work no matter how much I try :/

Did you look at those links I posted at all? All you have to do is remove the comments and you have a working example.

And while I agree completely with you Looki, I honestly think someone should just make a nicer SDK with those features (maybe released with MMF3 that supports compiling for MMF2 -> 3?). Just ideas though as I would have no idea how to create a nicer SDK :P

EDIF is a nicer SDK, and I'm continually making it nicer

[Tim]

Sorry I didn't actually try the examples in your fork, I was at work when I posted that message, I will attempt to use them in the morning and post back (2:30am atm haha :P )
And I agree completely that EDIF is a nicer SDK :P but making it auto handle edit time properties (serializing etc...) would be amazing

[LB]

Haha, I think automatic is pushing it quite a bit too far - not even Java's serialization can do that very well. I will be making it easier soon, though.

[Tim]

Wow I only just downloaded your updated EDIF, I must of had a really old version of EDIF as mine is nothing like your current one :P

[LB]

The EDIF global files are all mostly the same (except for some bug fixes), but the template project has had an extreme makeover. The wiki is updated for the changes in my fork. I'm still going, too - trying to make extension development even easier and more fun by abstracting things even more.