| This file contains information on the implementation of the direct play |
| and direct play lobby features. |
| |
| Most methods and APIs are not implemented at this point. Examine the code |
| to see what has been implemented. Stay tuned for some information here once |
| there is more implementation (and I figure out what the heck I'm doing). |
| |
| The files are include/dplay.h, include/dplobby.h, multimedia/dplobby.c and multimedia/dplay.c. |
| The .c files will be moved to appropriate dll directories at some later time. |
| |
| I think I can safely say that any application which requires direct play |
| or direct play lobby will not work at this point. Priority will be to get |
| examples from the sdk running. Once they're at least partially working, I can |
| get down to trying to get some of the games working. |
| |
| A small issue will be the fact that DirectX 6.1(ie. DirectPlay4) introduces a layer of functionality |
| inside the DP objects which provide guaranteed protocol delivery. This is |
| even if the native protocol, IPX or modem for instance, doesn't guarantee it. I'm going to leave |
| this kind of implementation to as close to the end as possible. However, I |
| will implement an abstraction layer, where possible, for this functionality. |
| It will do nothing to start, but will require only the implementation of the |
| guaranteness to give final implementation. |
| |
| |
| TODO: |
| - (done) Header files for DP4 and DPL3 |
| - (done) Add stub functions for all DP4 and DPL3 interfaces |
| - (done) Correct naming of the parameters for DP3 and DPL2 |
| - (done) Seperate out DP and DPL into multiple .c files |
| - (done) Allow CoCreateInstance to create the new interfaces |
| - (started)Implement mutual exclusion on object data for existing functions |
| - (done) Create and move to correct dll directories (dplay and dplayx) |
| - (done) Implement dplay in terms of dplayx |
| - (started) Need a better internal implementation for the objects which scales and |
| preferably doesn't involve casting structures |
| - (started) More generic initialization and destruction helper methods based off |
| the chosen internal implementation |
| - How to deal with all the incorrect interfaces for IUnknown methods. The standard |
| wine macros are incorrect in that they always give IUnknown* rather than DirectPlayLobby2A |
| for instance. Are we forced to cast? |
| - Implement a lib main for the dplayx dll |
| - Ensure that all dll stubs are present and the ordinals are correct |
| - Implementation of functionality |
| - bug fixes ;) |
| |
| Programs to make work: |
| - lserver.exe (from sdk) |
| - override.exe (from sdk) |
| - dpchat.exe (from sdk) |
| - duel.exe (from sdk) |
| |
| Next API to implement on a per program basis: |
| override.exe |
| - IDirectPlay3AImp_EnumConnections |
| - ? |
| |
| dplaunch.exe |
| - IDirectPlayLobbyAImpl_EnumLocalApplications |
| - ? |
| |
| lserver.exe |
| - IDirectPlayLobby2WImpl_Connect |
| - IDirectPlay3WImpl_CreatePlayer |
| - IDirectPlay3WImpl_CreateGroup |
| - IDirectPlay3WImpl_SetGroupData |
| - IDirectPlay3WImpl_Send |
| - ? |
| |
| bellhop.exe |
| - DirectPlay3AImpl_EnumConnections |
| - ? |
| |
| dpslots.exe |
| - IDirectPlayLobbyAImpl_SetConnectionSettings |
| - IDirectPlayAImpl_EnumConnections |
| - ? |
| |
| Peter Hunnisett - hunnise@nortelnetworks.com |
