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    Cool Win32 MSG - winEvent()

    Hi,

    I have to intercept a generated window message (Win32 struct type MSG) sent out of a Win32/MFC DLL. So I searched for intercepting native Events and found methods
    QWidget::winEvent( MSG* msg, long* result) from QWidget and
    QCoreApplication::winEventFilter( MSG* msg, long* result) from QCoreApplication.

    I have to load the DLL dynamically with
    Qt Code:
    1. LoadLibrary()
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    and get functions with
    Qt Code:
    1. GetProcAddress()
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    so I do not certainly want the DLL to be loaded from QApplication derived class in my app. But the message generated is no window message either because it comes from hardware connected so the message could not fit in any QWidget derived sub-class either.

    Because there seem no other possibilities I tried to load DLL from a derived QWidget class and override QWidget::winEvent(MSG* msg, long* result). So my principal parts are like this:

    Engine.hpp
    Qt Code:
    1. [...]
    2. #ifdef BUILD_ENGINE
    3. #define EXPORT_ENGINE Q_DECL_EXPORT
    4. #else
    5. #define EXPORT_ENGINE
    6. #endif
    7.  
    8. #define WM_TAG WM_USER+11111
    9.  
    10. #include <QtCore>
    11. #include <QWidget>
    12.  
    13. #include <windows.h>
    14. #include <winbase.h>
    15.  
    16. class EXPORT_ENGINE MyWidget : public QWidget
    17. {
    18. Q_OBJECT
    19. public:
    20. typedef bool (*StartScan)(void*, int*, int, int, int, char*);
    21. typedef bool (*SelectReader)(void*, int*, int*, int*, char*, int);
    22. typedef bool (*StopScan)(void*, int);
    23.  
    24. MyWidget( QWidget* parent = 0);
    25.  
    26. bool bind();
    27. bool open();
    28. bool close();
    29.  
    30. virtual bool winEvent( MSG* message, long* result );
    31.  
    32. // signals:
    33. // void tagDetected( const QString& tag );
    34.  
    35.  
    36. private:
    37. static bool StopScanDll( HWND hwParam, int id );
    38. static bool StarScanDll( HWND hwParam, int* id, int type, int com, int baud, QString name);
    39. static bool SelectReaderDll( HWND hwParam, int* id, int* com, int* baud, char* name);
    40. char* mReaderName;
    41. bool mStarted;
    42. QHash< int, int > mBaudRateTable;
    43.  
    44. static HINSTANCE sDll;
    45.  
    46. static int sReaderID;
    47. static int sReaderType;
    48. static int sReaderCom;
    49. static int sReaderBaud;
    50. static QString sReaderName;
    51. static bool sTagHandled;
    52. };
    53.  
    54. #endif // ENGINE_HPP
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    Engine.cpp
    Qt Code:
    1. // MyWidget.cpp
    2.  
    3. #include <QtGui>
    4.  
    5. #include "MyWidget.hpp"
    6.  
    7.  
    8. HINSTANCE MyWidget::sDll = 0;
    9. int MyWidget::sReaderID = 0;
    10. int MyWidget::sReaderType = 0;
    11. int MyWidget::sReaderBaud = 0;
    12. int MyWidget::sReaderCom = 0;
    13. QString MyWidget::sReaderName = "";
    14. bool MyWidget::sTagHandled = false;
    15.  
    16. MyWidget::MyWidget( QWidget* parent ) : QWidget( parent )
    17. {
    18.  
    19. sDll = LoadLibrary( L"RFID.dll" );
    20.  
    21. mReaderName = new char[255];
    22. sTagHandled = true;
    23. int baudRateValues[] = {0, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, 19200, 38400, 56000, 57600, 115200 };
    24. for (int i = 0; i < 11; i++ )
    25. {
    26. mBaudRateTable[i] = baudRateValues[i];
    27. }
    28. }
    29.  
    30. bool MyWidget::StopScanDll( HWND hwParent, int id )
    31. {
    32. [...]
    33.  
    34. MyWidget::StopScan FStopScanDll;
    35. FStopScanDll = NULL;
    36. FStopScanDll = (MyWidget::StopScan)GetProcAddress( sDll, "StopScan" );
    37. if ( FStopScanDll == NULL )
    38. return false;
    39. bool b = FStopScanDll( hwParent, id );
    40. return b;
    41. }
    42.  
    43. [...]
    44.  
    45. bool RfidWidget::bind()
    46. {
    47.  
    48. bool b = SelectDll( this->winId(), &sReaderType, &sReaderCom, &sReaderBaud, mReaderName );
    49. sReaderName = mReaderName;
    50. return b;
    51. }
    52.  
    53. [...]
    54.  
    55. bool MyWidget::winEvent( MSG* message, long* result )
    56. {
    57. UINT msg = message->message;
    58. WPARAM wp = message->wParam;
    59. LPARAM lp = message->lParam;
    60.  
    61. switch ( msg )
    62. {
    63. case WM_TAG:
    64. qDebug() << "WM_TAG";
    65.  
    66. emit tagDetected( (char*)lp );
    67. return true;
    68. break;
    69. default:
    70. break;
    71. }
    72.  
    73. return false;
    74. }
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    Problem is, if I define my sub-class with signals (
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    macro and signal
    Qt Code:
    1. tagDetected( const QString& )
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    I get linker errors from meta object compiling. I suppose this comes from interfering with native Win32 events?

    Is there any other possibility to get native events like
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    1. WM_TAG
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    message above?

    Thanks for any suggestions,
    AlGaN

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    Question Re: Win32 MSG - winEvent()

    Hi,

    ok, managed to get rid of meta object linker errors by adding dependency of Qt GUI lib in project file. But one problem remains: Are there any possibilities to get win API messages without generating a widget?

    Thanks for any hints,
    AlGaN

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