Need help with PluginOpen()

[E1M1]

I Have seen few examples about PluginOpen()

I tried

PluginOpen("testplugin.dll")
Main()

and

testplugin.dll:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace testplugin
{
    public class Class1
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("hello from plugin");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

and error:

D:\My Documents\cs\dll\testplugin\testplugin\bin\Debug\test.au3(2,6) : ERROR: Main(): undefined function.
Main()

What I do wrong? In example exripts there was 3 examples or 4 but the problem was thet plugins were closed source :S

Can anyone do 1 opensource plugin and then show how to use it?

Can I run plugin in background? so that it would repeat it's loop and autoit would do it's ownloop at same time.

[Zedna]

Can anyone do 1 opensource plugin and then show how to use it?

Look at SDK

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/files/beta/plugin_sdk/au3_plugin_sdk.zip

[E1M1]

tnx, how to make dll run so that it wont pause my script?

[Zedna]

tnx, how to make dll run so that it wont pause my script?

Autoit natively doesn't support multithreading.

So it's quite difficult.

You can do some mutlithreading inside your DLL (not related to Autoit's GUI).

You can use timers, in this way you can achieve invoking your function even if main Autoit script is working on something.

But it will pause main script, execute function and unpause main script, so it's not multithreading.

#Include <Timers.au3>
_Timer_SetTimer($hWnd[, $iElapse = 250[, $sTimerFunc = ""[, $iTimerID = -1]]])

Edited December 20, 2009 by Zedna