initialize and cleanup function in plugins

[fgw]

alex, i'm currently in plugin programming again. tried to move one of my plugins, which is using wmi to gather some system data, to a windows 7 system. unfortunately the plugin refused to work on this platform.

investigating this issue revealed, that i used to call some initialization code (to initialize wmi) within dllmain and this is, as ms recommends, most of the time a very bad idea!

ok, i was able to work around this by moving my initialization code into GetSourcesNum and GetSourceDesc, but where to place the cleanup code? for now i simply left the cleanup code in dllmain as it seems to work, but a clean solution would be to supply two additional entrypoints in the dll to do this stuff.

this leads me to the question if it would be possible to add two function calls to rivatuner:

right now i'm using the following functions called by rivatuner in my dll's:

• GetSourcesNum
• GetSourceDesc
• GetSourceCaps
• GetSourceData
• SetupSource

what i'm missing are two additional functions to be called by rivatuner:

InitializePlugin (or call it whatever you like)
to be called immediately after calling DllMain with
dwReason == DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH

CleanupPlugin (or call it whatever you like)
to be called immediately before calling DllMain with
dwReason == DLL_PROCESS_DETACH

may be there is already a mechanism to accomplish this, but i was not able to find a solution ...

[Unwinder]

ok, will think what I can do.

[stangowner]

I'll add a 2nd vote for this functionality.