Basic Interfaces

Classes
class	FUID
	Handling 16 Byte Globally Unique Identifiers. More...
class	FUnknown
	The basic interface of all interfaces. More...
class	FVariant
	A Value of variable type. More...
class	IBStream
	Base class for streams. More...
class	ISizeableStream
	Stream with a size. More...
class	IPluginBase
	Basic interface to a plug-in component: IPluginBase. More...
struct	PFactoryInfo
	Basic Information about the class factory of the plug-in. More...
struct	PClassInfo
	Basic Information about a class provided by the plug-in. More...
class	IPluginFactory
	Class factory that any plug-in defines for creating class instances: IPluginFactory. More...
struct	PClassInfo2
	Version 2 of Basic Information about a class provided by the plug-in. More...
class	IPluginFactory2
	Version 2 of class factory supporting PClassInfo2: IPluginFactory2. More...
class	IPluginFactory3
	Version 3 of class factory supporting PClassInfoW: IPluginFactory3. More...
class	IPtr< I >
	IPtr - Smart pointer template class. More...
class	OPtr< I >
	OPtr - "owning" smart pointer used for newly created FObjects. More...

Typedefs
typedef char	TUID[16]
	plain UID type

Functions
SMTG_EXPORT_SYMBOL Steinberg::IPluginFactory *	GetPluginFactory ()
	Plug-in entry point.

Detailed Description

Typedef Documentation

TUID

typedef char TUID[16]

plain UID type

Function Documentation

GetPluginFactory()

SMTG_EXPORT_SYMBOL Steinberg::IPluginFactory * GetPluginFactory

(

)

Plug-in entry point.

Any plug-in must define and export this function.
A typical implementation of GetPluginFactory looks like this

SMTG_EXPORT_SYMBOL IPluginFactory* PLUGIN_API GetPluginFactory ()
{
    if (!gPluginFactory)
    {
        static PFactoryInfo factoryInfo =
        {
            "My Company Name",
            "http://www.mywebpage.com",
            "mailto:myemail@address.com",
            PFactoryInfo::kNoFlags
        };
 
        gPluginFactory = new CPluginFactory (factoryInfo);
 
        static PClassInfo componentClass =
        {
            INLINE_UID (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000), // replace by a valid uid
            1,
            "Service",    // category
            "Name"
        };
 
        gPluginFactory->registerClass (&componentClass, MyComponentClass::newInstance);
    }
    else
        gPluginFactory->addRef ();
 
    return gPluginFactory;
}

See also

loadPlugin