Plugin Execution Context

[doudou]

I've been playing around with the AutoIt Plugin SDK and this question kept rising: how do I access the current AutoIt execution context from within a plugin function? Particularly, can we read/write script variables in the current or global scope or call AutoIt built-in functions?

If the answer is no, then it would be a nice-to-have feature, wouldn't it? Honestly, what real advantage otherwise has a plugin call over a DllCall? Only simpler syntax... comparing to a COM object call not even that...

One can think of an additional parameter for plugin functions like AU3_CONTEXT* and a lib with exports like AU3_ReadVariable(const char* szVarName, AU3_PLUGIN_VAR* pOut, const AU3_CONTEXT* pContext), AU3_WriteVariable(const char* szVarName, const AU3_PLUGIN_VAR* pVal, const AU3_CONTEXT* pContext).

Wonder, what would the devs say?

[jvanegmond]

This strongly reminds me of Lua.