New interface documentation for TC7 plugins

[ghisler(Author)]

As promised, I have now published the changed documentation for packer, file system and content plugins. The lister plugin interface has NOT been changed.

Packer plugins
File system plugins
Content plugins
Lister plugins (requires beta 4)

Please report any problems you find with the documentation here in this thread!

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)
Thank you very much

The lister plugin interface has NOT been changed.

Are you sure? I thought plug-ins need to react if the user wants to fit only large images or center images?

[D1P]

Some typos and mistakes in new documentation found. One serious mistake in FSPLUGIN.HLP: in fsplugin.pas contains description of FsContentGetDetectString function prototype, but that function not present in wfx API. Also that prototype not described in fsplugin.h.

Sorry for my bad English, but i think, I have clearly described this mistake.

[ghisler(Author)]

2D1P
Thanks for the info! Can you send me a list of errors by e-mail, please? You can also list them here if you prefer.

[D1P]

Some found mistakes in contentplugin.HLP:
ContentGetSupportedField decription, unnecessary blank before a point:

When a field supports several units like bytes, kbytes, Mbytes etc, they need to be specified here in the following form: bytes|kbytes|Mbytes .

ContentPluginUnloading description, bold "T" symbol:

There are no parameters.

ContentGetSupportedFieldFlags decription, twice repeated blank before contflags_subst*:

Returning one of the__contflags_subst* flags instructs Total Commander to replace (substitute) the returned variable...

I yet have not read other files so closely, but I post here, if I find other mistakes.

[byblo]

void __stdcall ContentSendStateInformation(int state,char* path) is already called in tc7.0pb1 ? I'm not really programmer but it seem that it didn't working at all:/

[Lefteous]

2byblo
Works fine here! Did you export the function correctly?

[byblo]

2byblo
Works fine here! Did you export the function correctly?

It wasn't done. Thanks, it working well now. (last week I discovered pointers ^^;)

[byblo]

A typo fix : In contentplugin.hlp -> ContentSendStateInformation ->

contstr_showhint: A tooltip/hint window is shown for the current file.

path Current path. In case of contstr_showhint, this is the path to the file, otherwise to the current directory.

contst_showhint didn't have a r (contentplug.h -> #define contst_showhint 4)

[ghisler(Author)]

I will correct it, thanks!

[Lufti]

Hello,
I'm just going through the Content plugin documentation. At first, possibility to change field values is a very nice addition!

Here's a quote from the ContentGetSupportedFieldFlags page:

Description of parameters:

FieldIndex The index of the field for which the sort order should be returned.

Happened when copying & pasting from ContentGetDefaultSortOrder page, hmm?!

Anyway, thank you for publishing the docs that early.

[ghisler(Author)]

Yep, thanks for finding that error!

[tbeu]

It should read ListLoadNext instead of ListLoad in lister plugin help.

Declaration:

int __stdcall ListLoadNext(HWND ParentWin,HWND ListWin,char* FileToLoad,int ShowFlags);

[Lefteous]

The new flags for Lister plug-ins are now documented (2006 11 24).

[ghisler(Author)]

ListLoadNext instead of ListLoad

You are right, sorry for the mistake! The help file has been updated now.