C-hook and NET-hook Developer's Guide

[TJ00_SH]

Hi. All.

 

A forever newbie with some programming experience, C/C++ (mostly console mode on old unix machine)

and Visual Basic/C# .NET.

Tried to learn C-hook several years ago, but didn't make it.

Come back once again.

 

I have two questions.

 

(1) C-hook Developer's Guide

Are there any updated version of C-hook and NET hook Developer's Guide?

The one I'm using, .pdf format, is dated 09/20/06.

Asked our Mastercam reseller, but no luck so far.

 

(2) Compiling error

Currently, I'm using Mastercam X4 mu3 and corresponding sdk installed.

As for programming, using Visual Studio 2008 Standard. Just installed it yesterday.

 

What I'm doing is making a very simple program, the very first one, "Hello from Mastercam!",

from aforementioned C-hook Developer's Guide.

 

Error message: .\Chooksample.cpp(103) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from

'const char [22]' to 'LPCWSTR'

 

I think I followed instructions, but I might have done something wrong or simple missed something.

Any pieces of advice will be appreciated.

Thank you.

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

No, the CHook Dev Guide has not been updated in a long time.

 

Did you create your sample CHook using the CHook Wizard?

That is the definitely the best way to start off getting a good base project to add your code into!

 

Error message: .\Chooksample.cpp(103) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from

'const char [22]' to 'LPCWSTR'

It sounds like you have the 'Character Set' (CHook Project Properties, Configuration Properties, General page)

set to "Use Unicode Character Set". Should be -> "Use Multi-Byte Character Set"

 

If so this will not work ->

 

MessageBox(0, "Hello from Mastercam!", 
           "Sample C-Hook", MB_OK);

 

BTW, for Unicode you'd need to tell the Compiler ->

   MessageBox(0, L"Hello from Mastercam!", 
              L"Sample C-Hook", MB_OK);

The L prefix makes the string a wchar_t string.

[TJ00_SH]

Thanks for your advice, appreciated.

[Evgueni]

Where I can obtain a C-hook and NET hook Developer's Guide? Can you e-mail it to me please?

Thanks