Start Stream ...End Steam ?

[JohnW63]

I'm trying to get the output of my DLL is small as I can, so I've turned off everything I don't think I need. Commented them out so they wouldn't add to the txt files.

In the UpdateScoring section is the code about starting the stream ...

 fprintf( fo, "START STREAM\n" );
    const char *ptr = info.mResultsStream;
    while( *ptr != NULL )
      fputc( *ptr++, fo );
    fprintf( fo, "END STREAM\n" );

I know that this outputs characters from mResultsStream to the file that "fo" points to until it hits a null. I'm just not sure what it puts out. My text file just has the words START STREAM and END STREAM right after each other, over and over. What would I break if I commented this part out ?

 

[Lazza]

That's supposed to ouput the same stuff you'd see in the results.xml files - so incidents, chat (?), timing events, that sort of thing. Unless you're looking for that info (doubt it) just take it out.

 

[JohnW63]

Cool. We use the XML feeds, but we don't need another set of data for that.

Thanks.

 

[Noel Hibbard]

I am working on a plugin that supports mResultsStream and I was getting output on my dev machine but not on my race rig. I messed around for almost an hour and finally determined that it would output mResultsStream if I disabled all my other plugins. Then I got to thinking, what if I rename my DLL to go to the top of the list alphabetically. I thought maybe it would load first and get access to mResultsStream before other plugins. Sure enough that did the trick. I have all my plugins re-enabled and mResultsStream and my plugin still has access to mResultsStream.

 

[MaXyM]

I messed around for almost an hour and finally determined that it would output mResultsStream if I disabled all my other plugins.

I'm sure it is stated somewhere in sources: this stream is available only for one plugin.

 

[Noel Hibbard]

I'm sure it is stated somewhere in sources: this stream is available only for one plugin.

You're probably right but I thought it was interesting that the plugins load in alpha order so you can make sure the plugin you want gets the stream.

 

[MaXyM]

yes it is.
btw I did simmilar tests once, without positive results. maybe coincidence. to me it was looking like reading dlls in order given by filesystem.