[AndrewM]

Is there any chance of getting an advance copy of the HALi control prior to 4.0's release? I've had my audio zoning plugin on hold for over a year waiting for a few things that 4.0 is supposed to take care of (such as notification prior to HAL speaking) and would really like to get it finished up.

[Duckjones]

Seems like it would be problematic to be creating HALi 4.0 applications without an actual HALCOM 4.0 to hook up to.

But what bout the HALi 4.0 documentation? We could at least start spec'ing our future enhancements to our HALi apps.

[JimMcGowanInlet]

4.0 HALi requires both the 4.0 HALCOM and 4.0 Server. Which inturn requires alot of other newer versions of other parts. So as you can guess the 4.0 HALi will not work without the complete 4.0 package.

Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the Beta 4.0 HALi Doc.

[AndrewM]

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[AndrewM]

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[AndrewM]

Private messaging seems to be on the fritz (db error). My email address is:

alpha mike alpha xray india mike AT t a m p a b a y DOT r r DOT c o m

The doc will be a big help, although I was hoping to just be able to add events through visual studio integration with the HALi ActiveX control instead of having to type everything out. But I will survive.

[AndrewM]

Holy multiple posts batman. I guess all those failed attempts during the "Great Forum Issue of 2008" went through after the fact. Wowzer.

[VincentB]

Andrew,

You said you use Visual Studio, and HALi from v3 of HAL. Out of curiosity - Visual C++ or Visual Basic?

Reason I ask is because I've used HALi since it was first released (which was when Visual Studio 6 used to be the latest IDE), and to retrieve all of the HALi events, i simply created a new project, added the HALi OCX, then went to Class Wizard and the IDE automatically generated an OCX event-wrapper cpp file, that provided all of the HALi events.

Well as you may know, the Class Wizard feature was dropped by Microsoft when Visual Studio .NET was released. Now even with VS2005, there seems to be no way to auto-generate a cpp wrapper that exposes all of an ActiveX control's events.

Every time a new HALi version is released, I load up a virtual image of Windows with Visual Studio 6 installed, and use the old Class Wizard to re-generate the wrapper CPP. Then I copy the cpp & header files to my normal development PC, and overwrite the old files in my HALi project. Very cumbersome.

I'm wondering how you retrieved all the HALi events in Visual Studio? Are you using v6, 2003 or 2005? And is it VB or VC++ ?

[AndrewM]

I'm using Visual Studio .NET 2003 with C++. I'm on a new machine since I last worked on my HALi app (over a year ago) and do not have the HALi ActiveX components loaded on this machine so I can't reproduce what I do to get the events (waiting for V4 HALi to load on this machine). I'm hesistant to load the HALi V3 stuff on my computer because I don't want to muck things up for when I get my hands on V4.

All I think I had to do what right click on the ActiveX control and add an event, then select the HALi event from the drop down. These all came up as ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE events or message map functions.