best way to load specific DLL on TC startup

[timepp]

Hi,

I want to tweak TC a bit using one DLL, for example, to add a key listener that redirect "j" to "down" and "k" to "up", I know Vitac but it's a standalone app that will affect not only TC but other apps.

My first consideration is to write a plugin. But seems there is no such plugin type which will be guaranteed to load at TC startup. I can only think the following ways. none of them is clean:

1. use tcmatch plugin. when user press "j" this plugin is loaded. Then I can do my stuff and automatically send "esc" and "down" to close the search box and move the cursor down. However, I need to modify quick search extended plugin source code to do this. (I cannot leave quick search extended)

2. use DLL injection to inject the DLL and launch TC with a launcher. This way is good so far in my thinking.

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Any other ideas?

[ghisler(Author)]

You could use the same load method as the TWinkey plugin:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=22950

[timepp]

You could use the same load method as the TWinkey plugin:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=22950

Wow! a clever and clean way! that's just what I need. Thanks Ghisler!!!

[Skif_off]

2timepp
And maybe AutoRun (method LoadLibrary).

[MVV]

BTW Autorun plugin itself uses the same auto-load way as TWinKey.

[tbeu]

There even was some development on a background plugin interface, see http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=16682. As the links there in are dead, I uploaded the latest wbx.7z to http://tbeu.de/forum/wbx.7z