QMP Plug-in Development Kit

[shaohao]

Originally Posted by Lich

Yeah, I have very strange development space right now - editing resources (waht have been extracted from b199 .dll) in MS VS'98, compiling project (b117 with imported resources) in MS VS 2005 Express (it can't edit resources by some marketing means).

Hi, Lich:
Have a try with Visual Localize if you want to make a latest language for QMP.
Visual Localize can generate a language dictionary for your translation project and it supports "Update resource" function. If you want to translate a new version language pack, just copy and overwrite the old branding.dll file and reload the project.
I use it to create my Simplifed Chinese language pack. It's a powerful resource translation tools.

Here is my flow of "How to create a latest language pack basing on QMP's Branding.dll file:

1. Copy branding.dll to a new language .dll file (e.g: LangZH.dll)
2. Open LangZH.dll with Restorator 2007.
   expand "Binary" node and remove all binary resources EXCEPT "5050"; Remove the whole "Images" node; Remove the whole "Bitmap" node; Remove the whole "html" node; Replace the "Icon" with your own language flag; Export the "5050" binary resource as a UNICODE text file. translate the text file. Import and replace the "5050" binary resource.
3. Open the LangZH.dll file with a HEX editor (e.g: Hex Workshop). find the first unicode string "Quinnware" and replace it with your own name (in UTF-8 format--e.g: 少昊 115C0A66). After that, about 0x1E6 bytes, you'll find the language ID "0910". Replace it with your own language ID (e.g: Simplified Chinese is 0x0804, so I replace it with 0408-- in reverse order). Save and close it.
4. Open Visual Localize, create a new translation project and add your modified LangZH.dll file. DO TRANSLATION. Generate the final language file. You'd better rename it to LangZH.lng.
5. Open the LangZH.lng file with Restorator 2007 again. Modify all resource's language ID to your own language ID. Save it.
6. Here we create a latest language pack. If a new QMP is out. Copy, rename and modify the branding.dll file as I mentiond above. Use Visual Locolize's reload modules function to update the translation resource. Generate a new language pack file after you finished you new translation.

HaHa... Good Luck!!

[Lich]

Originally Posted by shaohao

Hi, Lich:
Have a try with Visual Localize if you want to make a latest language for QMP. (...)

Wow, that's impressing. Definitely, I should try Visual Localize and Restorator! Thank you very much!

[Tokelil]

It looks like the values for the library plug-ins PlayStat (QCDModInitDB2 plug-in) has changed.
F.x. on track start PLAYSTAT_PLAY_5_SECONDS is passed to the PlayStat function instead of PLAYSTAT_PLAY_STARTED.