How do I add this program to touch buddy

[linklemming]

Gang,

I am trying to add an existing program to be displayed from within touchbuddy. At the moment I have .exe and .ocx files and am not sure what I need to do next. I know I need to write something, just not sure what. I have been searching but am not quite sure what I need to be searching for.

I am a programmer, just not much in the windows realm but I do have Studio.NET 2003.

So I am asking, what steps do I need to perform? (or what software do I need to write). Any useful links/faqs/wiki pages?

For reference, this is the program

GTL PD Monitor your car with this tool - RaceSimCentral Forums

Gary

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Ahhh.. Gary! You are the first! Can you believe it? Nobody has yet asked or even tried to write their own plugin except me. And the concept is really very easy.

A plugin is anything that can be displayed in an Internet Explorer Browser. Anything you can think of to be displayed in a webpage. So, if you have looked at any of my plugins, you can see a little of what you can do.

To make my plugins, I simply created a 'control' that can be placed on a webpage. Similar to a textbox, or button. But I just made my plugins have lots more stuff on them...

I used the VB6 UserDocuments project type to create my web control. But if you have Visual Studio.Net 2003 then you should have the ability to make a web control. Just find some simple .Net web control (or whatever they call it in .Net) app and look at how it works. Compile it, and open it in IE. When I compile my VB6 UserDocument apps, they create a .exe (or .dll depending on how you want it to work), and also a .vbd file. I just open IE, and Select File/Open and open that .vbd file, and IE displays the control for me. (If I do this while the project is running within VB6, I can actually step through the code as I click and test the control in IE, and debug it.) Test one of my plugins and you'll see what I mean.

If that program has a .ocx file, you should be able to add that as a control to your project, and then add that control to your web control's work area.

I have been meaning to upload my Bombsight Calculator VB6 project for users to look at, but just have not gotten around to it. Plus, nobody has had any interest it seems....

Hope this helps. Don't hesitate to post any more questions. I would love to see you succeed in making a plugin in .Net, or any language.

WBK

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Gary,

I zipped up the VB6 Source Code my Bombsight Calculator Plugin and uploaded it to our Plugins download pages. Not sure how much it will help you, but others may find it useful.

Check it out here.

[linklemming]

WBK,

Thanks for the info, thats what I was looking for...the buzzwords to look for. providing an example is even better!

Kudos for such a great program (touchbuddy that is)

Gary

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

No problem....

One more note. I don't even put my control on a webpage. That .vbd file is the 'thin' interface file, and just open that. When IE opens my .vbd file, the .exe is loaded into memory and run.

[linklemming]

Ok, tried the .NET thing (I actually have VC++.NET 2003), created a ASP.NET Web Service and tried to compile the simple "hello world" and it didnt work complaining bout IIS not being installed and I have XP home which doesnt have IIS nor can it be installed (as far as I can tell).

So tell me WBK, do you have XP Home with VB6, if that combo works I will try to find a used copy of VB6 somewhere.

I also seem to have the option of doing my own mfc activeX control and might do that.

Clueless but making progress

Gary

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

I think you have to have XP Pro or Windows Server to run IIS. I do have IIS and VB6 on my pc. I'm pretty sure I don't need IIS to write my ActiveX UserDocument in VB6. As a matter of fact, I usually keep IIS turned off, so it's never running.

Yea, try the MFC ActiveX Control. IE is an ActiveX Container object, so should let you place any ActiveX object inside it.

I also emailed a friend of mine who is a ASP.Net web developer. I'll let you know what he says.

WBK