31 replies to this topic

[KaFu]

Last post processed: #21
Hiho Community,

"A dynamic-link library (DLL) is a module that contains functions and data that can be used by another module (application or DLL)."

The purpose of this thread is to create a link-list to useful 3rd party / non standard DLL and machine code libraries* and their usage in AutoIt with examples or UDF wrappers. I'll just start with what I use and know of. If you've got additions feel free to post them here and I will integrate them into this first posting.

* I decided to add some few pure AutoIt UDFs, as they seem to be powerful enough to be mentioned here ...

DLL Collection Thread

01. - AutoIt

• AutoItObject
  ^{Use an OOP-like syntax in your scripts and access many COM-Interfaces exposed from the Windows-API.}
• Embed DLLs in script and call functions from memory
  ^{Pure AutoIt Script (now working under Vista)}
• Hook into a 32bit process WM-Queue
  ^{Using Hook.dll}
• NomadMemory
  ^{Reading from and writing to memory}
• ResHacker project
  ^{Written in AutoIt}
• Resources UDF
  ^{Embed/use any data/files into/from AutoIt compiled EXE files}
• ScriptOMatic
  ^{WMI ScriptOMatic tool for AutoIt}
• WinAPIEx UDF
  ^{WinAPI Extended UDF Library for AutoIt3}

02. - Compression & Encryption

• 7Zip UDF
  ^{Over 27 functions regarding 7Zip archives}
• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES/Rijndael) UDF
  ^{Support ECB/CBC/CFB/OFB block chiper mode}
• MD5,SHA1,CRC32,RC4,BASE64,XXTEA machine code version
  ^{Pure AutoIt Script and runs very fast}
• RSA-Encryption-Plugin
  ^{Open source C++ code}
• UnRAR.au3
  ^{UDF for unpacking *.rar archives}
• Zip32 UDF
  ^{For working with zip archives (7Zip is recommended)}

03. - Data & Document Management

• Artificial Neural Network UDF
  ^{Using the Fannfloat (Fast Artificial Neural Network) library}
• Bayesian Networks UDF
  ^{Create a graphical model of a system or problem and get intelligent results from it, making predictions, inferences, or assumptions based on available evidence, formulas, and probabilities.}
• EzMySql UDF
  ^{Use MySql Databases with autoit MySql in Autoit with Syntax similar to SQLite UDF (for a more comprehensive MySql UDF see MySQL UDF)}
• MySQL UDF
  ^{Without ODBC, uses libmysql.dll}
• SQLite
  ^{Accessing SQLite databases from Autoit, Standard UDF}
• XML DOM wrapper (COM)
  ^{COM XML wrapper for DOM}

04. - File System & Processing

• Active Directory UDF
  ^{Functions for accessing and manipulating Microsoft Active Directory}
• TrIDLib
  ^{Identify file types from their binary signatures}

05. - Graphics

• Au3GlPlugin T2
  ^{OpenGL Plugin Evolution}
• Au3Irrlicht 2.0
  ^{AutoIt plugin wrapper around the object oriented 3D library called Irrlicht}
• Bitmap Library
  ^{Simple Bitmap managment without DLLs}
• DirectShow UDF
  ^{UDF part of AAA Player}
• FreeImage Library
  ^{180 Functions}
• Image Search Library
  ^{Searches a region of the screen for an image}
• Prospeed UDF
  ^{Realtime Image effect's , sprite management , joystick and mouse support and directX sound}
• Tesseract (Screen OCR) UDF
  ^{Recognise the text in windows, controls and the desktop}

06. - GUI

• HTMLayout DLL UDF
  ^{Rendering HTML in AutoIt}
• TaskDialog
  ^{Opens a native TaskDialog on Vista and a remade one on older Systems with help of the DLL from XTaskDialog}
• Sciter Dll UDF
  ^{GUIHtml in AutoIt}

07. - Hardware

• Control Vista Master Volume
  ^{Plugin + OSD Volume Script}
• SDL UDF
  ^{Joysticks, CDs, 2D Graphics, Timers etc}
• VCTemp
  ^{View CPU core temp values over the network using dll api}
• WinLock.Dll
  ^{Block taskmanager or CTRL-ALT-DEL}

08. - Internet

• WinINet.au3 (FTP/HTTP/HTTPS/Gopher+)
  ^{Wrapper functions around pure WinINet calls}
• WinPcap Autoit3 UDF
  ^{Access the main functionalities offered by the WinPcap driver: capture, filter, save/read and send data packets on a network interface (Network Sniffer)}
• WinHTTP functions
  ^{GET, POST using Winhttp.dll}

09. - Media

• BASS Function Library (Sound and Music Functions)
  ^{Wrapper for Bass, BassEnc, Bass FX, BassSFX, BassAsio and BassCd DLLs}
• BASSMOD
  ^{BASSMOD is a MOD only (XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX) version of BASS, just 34% of it's size}
• MP3 ID3V1/V2
  ^{Reading and writing using AudioGenie3.dll}
• MediaInfo DLL Calls
  ^{Some examples for correct calls to MediaInfo.dll}

10. - Output

• Create PDF from your application
  ^{With embeded ActiveX DLL}
• Hunspell
  ^{Spelling, thesaurus & hyphenation checker for AutoIt using Dlls from the NHunspell-Project. Works with OpenOffice dictionaries.}
• Printing using UDF and a DLL
  ^{Useful for graphs, forms, labels etc.}
• RMChart - GDI+ Chart-Control
  ^{AutoIt-UDFs for the RMChart-Control by Rainer Morgen. The DLL can display really pretty Charts like bar charts, line charts or pie charts.}

Edited by KaFu, 03 October 2010 - 09:55 AM.

[linus]

Nice idea, but why a new thread for this instead of keeping this up to date?

[KaFu]

First because I didn't knew that one , second this one is just about external DLLs and last but not least I hope for some more input by the community to make this a shared & living thread and not a static wiki page nobody knows of by bumping it from time to time. There's some good input on that page to consider, thanks for the heads up!

[Mat]

In addition to 7zip there is also UnRar, also from rasim. Between them and any internal windows stuff you have most of the common archive formats.

Rasim also did zip32, but I don't think that's necessary since 7zip covers it + more.

An entry for graphics: here.

I think this is also worth considering as a little note, since it would make using dll's a lot easier in programs etc. when having a standalone program is important.

[KaFu]

Mat, exactly what I was looking for , thanks for those additions! I also went through my code snippets and came up with some more...

[AdmiralAlkex]

Maybe add BASSMOD? It's only around 34% the size of BASS (33,5 KB vs 97,5 KB on the dlls), so if all you want is to play some tracker music it could be worth it.



Edit:(note that the au3 from post #25 is needed for proper usage, rasims is bugged)

Edited by AdmiralAlkex, 24 September 2010 - 06:27 PM.

[KaFu]

Added, thanks for this one !

[Mat]

Mat, exactly what I was looking for , thanks for those additions! I also went through my code snippets and came up with some more...

This went straight to my list of useful links

Isn't Tesseract graphics rather than docs?

[ProgAndy]

Do not forget EzMySQL and MySQL

Edit: Oh, and WinInet is there, too. Also you could add WinAPIEx, since this UDF uses standard windows DLLs
You see, many extra UDFs use DLL functions, so it is difficult to separate between DLL and nonn-DLL.

Edit2: There is also Hunspell for AutoIt
Edit3: Also using DLLs: AutoItObject, RMChart and TaskDialog

Edited by ProgAndy, 24 September 2010 - 08:45 PM.

[Ascend4nt]

Nice idea (and list), KaFu

[KaFu]

Isn't Tesseract graphics rather than docs?

Moved ...

You see, many extra UDFs use DLL functions, so it is difficult to separate between DLL and nonn-DLL.

You're right, where to start and where to stop ? I also added ward's machinecode / ASM UDFs for hashing because I consider them so powerful. I'll stick to that criteria and added WinAPIEx too. Better a few more then missing some! Thanks for your input Andy ...

Nice idea (and list), KaFu

Thanks, I missed a list like this from day one on, so I decided to just make it myself ...

[linus]

Nice idea, but why a new thread for this instead of keeping this up to date?

... I give up - it's really becoming a useful list I'll have to consider in the future (and indeed - Wiki seems not to be very popular)

Also not a .dll, but useful in the past and yet not mentioned: eltorro's XML DOM wrapper (has also a project page).
Just a suggestion: What about also adding a section for some useful dev tools (e.g. trancexx's ResHacker), so this becomes a general place for research around development ressources?

And: can we have this thread as a sticky?

[Yashied]

Vista Volume Plugin
DirectShow

[KaFu]

... I give up - it's really becoming a useful list I'll have to consider in the future (and indeed - Wiki seems not to be very popular)

Glad I could convince you . Added your links, thanks for posting them ...

Vista Volume Plugin
DirectShow

Thanks for those ...

@all:
What do you think about packing each UDF (AutoIt examples + UDF + Dlls + Link to parent post) into a single zip-archive and alternative dl-links here as a backup of the original source and I'll host those on my site (let's see what "unlimited bandwidth really means")?. Quite some work... and I would be glad if someone would jump in to help ...

Edited by KaFu, 25 September 2010 - 10:39 AM.

[ProgAndy]

You did not add WinInet yet: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=77503

The mirror is not a bad idea, but you have to take care of updates.

Edited by ProgAndy, 25 September 2010 - 10:43 AM.

[TheSaint]

Nice collection developing here.

STICKY maybe?

[KaFu]

You did not add WinInet yet: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=77503

Added ...

The mirror is not a bad idea, but you have to take care of updates.

If we could do it as a community project I'll take care of processing the updates posted to the thread, bundle & host them... IF the rest of the community makes me aware of updates in this threads and bundles the updates to a single Zip file, then I'll take care of the rest ...

[Werty]

Nice thread, very usefull.

But dont make it a sticky just yet, it needs to be in motion until it dies itself, THEN it should be stuck.

Stuck threads often get's overlooked, so please wait till it's done.

[slayerz]

Nice list KaFu, thanks a lot ;-)

[JohnOne]

Yes, great idea, and all nicely alphabeticalized too.

Thanks.