Info File General Component (with source!)

[Russ]

Right, after three days on-and-off fiddling with the SDK, I've managed to produce a vaguely useful component, which writes the currently playing song info to a file for use with mIRC (a better solution than DDE IMHO), or other things. I'm also releasing it with source, so people don't have to spend hours playing around with the SDK like I did .

This component shows new component developers how to create a simple windowless plugin with callbacks, and config file attributes, and I try to illustrate the pitfalls I found.

The information the plugin gets can be a bit intermittent at times, and I blame the metadb functions for not supplying me with the info .

Lastly, thanks to schweitn, pokefreak325, and soundsys for helping me on this one.