Creating your own HLDJ commands

[Renegade]

[jxl180]

So, our commands must be hard-coded into the hldj files? We cannot just call upon the functions in our own programs?

[Renegade]

At this point it's the easiest way, but I can add hooks to call custom handlers that you pass in. Let me know if this would be easier for you.

[jxl180]

Don't go by me because I won't be attempting to make any modifications anytime soon (busy with uni. work); however, I think hooks will make it a lot easier because mods can be distributed without having to redistribute hldj files. Also, what if a user wants to apply multiple mods to hldj that they did not create? Also, if hooks are used in this fashion, HLDJ can be used as an engine, as well.

[Renegade]

Yep, it's been in the for a while; a full engine (probably a rewrite too) would be ideal, in the meantime I can make smaller modifications, but I'm trying to gauge the time spent based on interest/use.

[jxl180]

How do I ensure the message (assuming HLDJM is HLDJ message) has a unique id? I mean I guess I can increment it (the next would be 0x08), but how can I ensure uniqueness? For example, if many people start adding 3rd party commands, how do we make sure there will be no conflicts? Just use a really random hex number (sort of like randomly assigning a port number and hoping for the best)?

[Renegade]

For now incrementing is ok (but give some room for HLDJ commands to grow). Ideally with a plugin system, it will query each plugin for a list of commands and handlers/callbacks. Let me know if you're actually starting to add your commands to HLDJ now, I'll bump the plugin system to the head of the TODO list.

[jxl180]

Yeah, I've been playing around with the api for a few hours and learning c from your code as I progress lol. I'm writing a command hldj_local <0/1>. If players in the server are annoyed by the sounds being broadcast, enabling this will turn HLDJ into a personal music player. Only the hldj user can hear the sound. hldj_local 0 (default) will enable broadcasting (now that I think of it, hldj_broadcast seems more appropriate).

I am having trouble finding out how to get the arguments (again, I'm very new to c). Would it be cmd, cmd[1], *p, or am I completely off?

Should I just do two seperate aliases: hldj_broadcast_on and hldj_broadcast_off to toggle it?

[Renegade]

[jxl180]

My plan was to use the play command; however it will play what ever is currently loaded (by executing "play '..\..\voice_input.wav" I intend to do this in HLDJ for practice and so that the same bind key can be used to play songs.

EDIT: Also, It will allow the user to still use the microphone (unless maybe hldj_muteall/hldj_unmuteall is called, or something similar).

[Renegade]