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Hey girl! I'm glad you are getting exited about this brewing. If we are right about about the benefits, it is well worth drinking it every day, and even if it's merely tasty that's good too. Frankly though, I don't think humans would have bothered keeping it alive for 3000 years if it was a hoax. It is like a sourdough starter in that it is derived from elements in the environment but to keep it in a form usable to us we have to husband it and keep it somewhat carefully to keep it alive. Check out "Kombucha: the Miracle Fungus" by Harald Tietze, he points out that fact, among many other interesting things. One is that Kombucha is actually considered a lichen, a symbiotic combination between fungus and blue green algae, which have been recently discovered to be not algae but single celled bacteria- one of the earliest forms of life on this planet. So, we probably share considerable DNA with Kombucha!
So the basics: Brew tea and add sugar. Generally, 3/4 to 1 cup sugar to each gallon of tea. Most people say to use simple granulated white sugar, the cheaper the better. A lot of people that would never use it for food use it in kombucha because it is so transformed in the process that they are not worried about the organicness or whatever. Also, you can theoretically use any natural sweetener but some work better than others. There is some controversy about using honey. A lot of people say it doesn't work, but maybe that's because of introducing wild yeast and such which might change the balance of the kombucha strain. I have used it and it seems to work fine. Expensive though and hard to judge what would be the equivalent of a cup of table sugar. It seems to be organic cane sugar is probably the best if you can find a bulk cheap one. If you use honey, don't use it every cycle.
The tea is also simple but complicated. Black tea works fastest and has the richest flavor. Green by itself will work, but tends to be astringent, light and slow to ferment. My favorite mix is 2/3 Irish Breakfast and 1/3 Green. I usually use about 6-10 bags per gallon depending on how dark I want it. So boil the water, turn it off, add the tea, let steep and cool for an hour with the cover on, then add the sugar, cover, swirl and leave overnight to cool. Do not add ice to cool as there is bacteria in your freezer (gasp)! Then, in the morning you take you your SCOBY out of the pitcher or jar with clean hands and put it in a clean bowl with some of the liquid from the last batch (it can sit in the fridge like that with some saran wrap on it for many weeks with no problem. Empty the gunky stuff from the bottom that you didn't want to drink and rinse the vessel. Best not to use soap, but if necessary just make sure it is completely rinsed. Never use anti-bacterial soap in the vessel or on your hands when prepping, if at all possible. The scoby is very hardy, but you could damage it a little. Pour the sweet tea, cooled off to below 80 degrees, into your vessel then carefully place the scoby on top so it floats. It may not want to float right away, especially if the room is cold and the scoby came out of the fridge. If that's the case just let it be. You want it to be as unwrinkled as possible as the layering effect is strongest once the scoby is flat and tough and smooth. If it gets all wrinkled (or folded in quarters as yours was) you can try to stretch it out, tear it in half or just leave it and eventually it will form a new top layer that is more smooth. This will happen if you take a scoby out of a bigger vessel and put it in a smaller one. It is fine, will still work the same, but essentially the thing breathes and it seems to thrive on surface area, plus it does best if the whole surface of the liquid is covered. As you experiment with different vessels you will see how the ratio of the surface area to the volume of liquid effects the brewing. The higher the ratio (i.e. the larger the surface of the vessel) the faster it will brew, but the flavor may be best when brewed a little slower than full-steam ahead. Other factors of the speed of brewing are air temperature, temp. of what the vessel is resting on, season, health and balance of scoby, amount and type of sweetener, type of tea...yikes! Really, though, you can't go wrong. Just expiriment, drink it at all stages so you know what's going on, and enjoy!
Cheers to your health my friend!
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Who would have thought that DiS would descend upon Brighton's music industry showcase extravaganza in such fashion.
Without a soul in sight waiting to 'network' with a single one of our merry shambles of a crew, we set to work on actually seeing bands. And hearing them too! Despite the cruel, bitter wind that insisted on hurtling toward us with near-freezing drizzle as its freight, we actually saw some bands.
My word, we saw some rather spectacular bands at that.
So now, with eardrums shattered, backs blown to smithereens and internal organs strewn across the floor in an untidy convalescing mess, here are (at least) two tips each from five of Drowned in Sound's finest: Rachel Cawley, Christopher Knight, Peter White, Colin Roberts and myself...
Gojira play death metal but while you're listening to this you'll never want to die. Forget about the heaviest band you've seen this year. This is the heaviest band you'll ever see. Ever. The French behemoths signed a major deal just prior to this masterclass in aural demolition and proceeded to annihilate an entire room of seasoned metallers. This is not heaviness for the sake of it. These boys take a full set of Real Songs and thunder their riffs across in a way you just won't believe until you see it for yourself. Judging by this performance Gojira are about to make a whole load of people sit up and take notice.
The other end of the spectrum saw a set from Kid Harpoon (pictured; left) steal the charismatic glory from underneath the snotty noses of those that like to pose on a chair with just an acoustic guitar for defence. Asides from a delicious voice and an impressive early repertoire of songs, this chap even managed to make stringing a guitar seem like the most delightful five minutes you ever wasted.
While flitting from the uncomfortably empty to the uncomfortably full venues via the one that is just ridiculously far away, I saw that *Disco Ensemble *delivered upon every expectation while their compatriots won Eurovision. Earlier, *Beans On Toast *grumbled about life in general and managed to get a beer off the one man on the delegate list who, "wouldn't open a butcher's because [he] doesn't know anything about meat"! Also, I tried and failed to battle my slowly unfurled belief that *65daysofstatic *are my favourite band. They're British. It just doesn't happen.
Buck 65 is quite the performer - he takes on the aura of old-school TV presenters with a treasure trove of tricks for our amusement: well-timed winks, mimed whistles, running jokes. He likes girls called Susie, each song's story is told, "this one goes out to Susie, the only punk girl in my little town, not that she ever noticed me", another goes out to Susie of countdown fame. Buck 65 is geek-gone-good, his dusty, musty, countrified hiphop tells tales of small town memory and big town confusion. He makes records scritch-scratch, then stares at us earnest and tells another brutally honest tale.
Juanita Stein of *Howling Bells * (pictured; right) is a real singer, her voices spirals like a smoke signal right into the high ceiling of the Zap Club. 'Wishing Stone', with snaking basslines and distant organs sounds ten times the size it does on record, so much sharper, so much more serrated. Howling Bells have written songs that the Duke Spirit must be jealous of - the same darkly folkloric tone, music for the open road at night. The main difference: Howling Bells' songs skip any repetition and replace it with aching beauty. Watching tonight, eyes cannot be taken off stage, a whole audience peer closer and closer. It seems they have barely started when time is up, and we move off into the night.
If someone allows you charge of a guitar, please be considerate enough to do something interesting with it. Sheer quantity of performances happening this weekend means that only the really interesting stand out, the fairly good become un-memorable and the poor are ignored. Maccabees, Pigeon Detectives, Laakso, it's all very well strumming away, but completely indistinct tunes and general six-stringed sounds don't leave me impressed. DARTZ! *have a better idea - switching from brutal noise-niks to dancing beauties with a melodic knack - I'm not the only person in awe. *Holy Fuck are fellow proponents of imagination making guitars sound like computers, drumming with metrenomic precision and scattering clicks and bleeps straight out onto the dance floor.
With the powers that be deeming it to be an unnecessary luxury to be both dry and entertained by the seaside, a damp and sodden traipse to what feels like a small hamlet in the south of France through dire windswept alleys to the Concorde 2 was always a desperate measure, but fleeing the perfunctory and tired *British Sea Power *falls well within those parameters. Any foul journey can be made better by booze though, especially if you're downing fancy stolen lager from said band's dressing room moments before stage time. Nice dice.
Downpatrick's The Answer *were still battling through a room chocker-block with indifference upon arrival, an aloofness quickly replaced with aroused exhilaration courtesy of *65daysofstatic's now routine auricular assault which rapidly penetrates any lingering doubts surrounding their well-worn live set. Kicking and punching through their knotted and wrenching arrangements never felt so good, the distance travelled justifying my lurve with that old familiar palpitating rush.
Still Remains the following day had to trawl deeply to overcome the extraordinary assault to the senses provided by Gojira, but matching the rabid enthusiasm of their audience with ardent gusto lends a clear hand, as does a brutal and glorious cover of Nine Inch Nails' 'Head Like A Hole'. Still Remains' textured heavy hardcore is thrown around with fiercely animated exuberance, assuredly soon to return with a fresh cargo.
3hostwomexicansandatinofspanners are among the others peddling their wares in town - a band diligently replacing a McLusky shaped hole in everyones multi-chambered heart. Also, Minneapolis' Tapes n Tapes, whose name is the most exciting thing about them, and the muted return of *The Cooper Temple Clause *in a decidedly muted form sans Didz, matched with a sense of the well trodden new material.
The trawling and dousing takes its toll, no doubt about it, but with a wink and a nudge from a beaming and suitably rocked crowd on the way home makes such trifling matters utterly redundant. Conquered?
Dartz! Is Good. For Your Brain! Not only do they slay THAT song - 'Once, Twice, Again' (a perfect collection of Dismemberment Plan chorus catches and limey At The Drive-In sloganeering) but THAT's not even the best thing about Dartz! Their half pop-tart/half disco-jazz rumbles should have had them playing at that All Tomorrow's Parties lark down the road, but dang god are we glad they're in deadly Brighton instead. It's a short, sharp, smart and elegant punk rock party; a Northern explosion of dancing drummers and concerned cowbells. We enter expecting to be slightly amused and leave feeling joyously entertained. Dartz! Is Good. For Your Brain!
Der Spiegel Tent is a calamitous mix of Glastonbury Lost Vagueness whimsical drama and indie pop gazing Ptarnum-isms. Only on a roundabout in Sussex. And The Pipettes are its greatest show on earth. Rose, Becki and Gwenno (obviously, the best, in a post Sarah 'Chips' Harding Girls Aloud way) are a glorious finish to an evening of wind-battering band-baiting; forcing all sorts of feet-plopping, awkward man-dancing and ramshackle smiles. Such Phil-Spector-shoots-21st-Century-Grease sounds are perfect Great Escape; der spiegel tent ist sehr gut.
You're pretty much screwed if you see the best band of a festival on the opening night, but Holy Fuck (pictured; above) decided to do just that. The all-live dance n' beats extravaganza sends me and half the room off in raptures. Clearly loving every minute of it, Holy Fuck ascend and nearly smash through the ceiling in terms of intensity, layering and volume. Truly one of the best live bands I've ever seen.
Jeremy Warmsley solo however, is often something to be approached with a degree of caution. Gone are his trademark bleeps and beats, replaced only with a toy piano and guitar. Tonight however, J-Wo's songs are his calling cards, 'Dirty Blue Jeans' stays in the head for hours to come and he pulls it all off with a smile. Perfect.
Scissors for Lefty's electro-tinged indie-rock rams the Freebutt on Friday and with good reason. The same can't be said for The Pigeon Detectives the day after - 'I'm Not Sorry' is a solid pop tune, but it doesn't get anywhere past that. Shy Child disappoints a rammed Beach, after Metric have whipped them into a sexed-up frenzy and while the 'industry' goes to wank off during Klaxons (pictured; below), the Dischord-tinged, incredibly driven punk-rock of Dartz! is all the aural masturbation I need.
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... Those are our top tips from the weekend. Some you may be familiar with, others you most certainly will not be. You must appreciate that we struggled long and hard to get to these bands. Brighton is not a place conducive to hard work and we were on what was essentially a glorified pub crawl contracting all manner of filthy illnesses. Brighton is bad for our health. Along the way, however, a deep-seated appreciation for fry-ups and a card game called Bullshit/Cheat was formed and it should also be noted that everyone should own a Prince record. He makes one hell of a soundtrack.


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It is a given that additional research is needed into the mechanics behind any form of communication. It is not enough to simply theorize that some form of energy is required; it is also required that a means be demonstrated as to how this energy reacts with the electronics.
It is a proven fact that EM fields can cause reaction in electronic circuits. It is also a demonstrated fact that this form of energy can be blocked by conventional shielding techniques. Therefore it can be stated that in the presence of adequate shielding any communication recorded did not originate from an EM Field.
There is another factor that can be demonstrated as well. Many claims are made that something communicates using standard off the shelf recorders. The problem is that most of these recordings are of low volume or otherwise difficult to hear due to lw signal level. The obvious solution is to bump up the sensitivity of the recorder capturing the audio. The problem is that even when this is done the suspected EVP is still at the threshold of hearing. Why is this? If the source is able to induce a signal into an electronic circuit and create speech then additional amplification will make this signal louder. It's like turning up the volume control! ( I won't go in to bandpass filtering and other noise reduction techniques which can also lower the background electronic noise in a circuit.)
Yet most investigators are content to simply continue with the same methods others use even though these are providing poor results in most cases. It would seem the area requiring the research is in methodology. Either new techniques or better equipment and a concerted effort to determine exactly how any such communication is achieved. Once this is understood then it becomes an engineering problem to develop equipment to take advantage of whatever method is being used.
Running around with voice recorders or fooling ourselves with paredolia boxes into hearing things that are simply created by the machines is not helping to find the answers. We know how paredolia works; so that is a dead end. What we need is a new approach, and investigations that center on that rather than the same tired investigations most seem to conduct these days.
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I'm sure this has been asked a couple hundred times, but here goes. I went on vacation in December to St. John for the first time. I rented a villa up in the hills. What a ride that was. I was close to Cruz Bay and had a great view. I drove into town every night and that was fine but I wish I was staying on the beach which is a very limited option.
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Game #19: Blue Jays at Red Sox pregame
I'm back. After a few days off, enjoying the beautiful weather in Toronto, I'm now doing the same from Fenway Park in Boston. I took advatage of the sunshine and made the 20-25 minutes trek from my hotel to the ballpark and soaked up every second of it. Tomorrow I may go for a jog along the Charles River if the weather brings more of the same. Now, about getting those Toronto bats going…
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Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Gregg Zaun, C
Aaron Hill, 2B
Royce Clayton, SS
Jason Phillips, 1B
John McDonald, 3B
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Julio Lugo, SS
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
David Ortiz, DH
Manny Ramirez, LF
J.D. Drew, RF
Mike Lowell, 3B
Wily Mo Pena, CF
Doug Mirabelli, C
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
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Six East Coast oil refineries representing 1.19 million barrels per day - or 7 percent of total U.S. capacity - could potentially be hit by the deadly storm, which left at least 41 dead as it roared through the Caribbean and churned northward.
The storm threat boosted gasoline and heating oil prices in New York trading over the past two sessions.
Forecasters say Sandy is expected to be pulled in by another storm system moving from the west, making it come ashore in the northeast late Monday or early Tuesday and unleashing heavy rains, storm surges and possibly near hurricane-force winds.
Some forecasters say Sandy has the potential to be a multibillion-dollar disaster, wreaking greater damage than last year's Hurricane Irene, but it was too soon to tell its actual trajectory, and refiners were taking early steps to prepare.
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I remember being driven to school by my papi every morning listening to Leo Dan's greatest hits in our big red van. The van was more than just my ride to school. It was an emblem of my position in America, of my class, of our class, of my family's bank account. It was a flag for not fitting in. The big red bright color that I miss so much matched my anxiety around arriving late (to be late to school, to get behind). My white counterparts would be reminded of my difference.
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So…did you love the dress?
Anyone of us willing to 'fess up to watching the recent Royal Wedding (hello, Grace Kelly!), knows that all eyes were on the prize — not the Prince, the dress.
As brides everywhere gear up for their spring and summer weddings, you can almost hear a chorus of shrieks and sighs over the color, style, fit, price and comfort level of that most iconic of garments, the wedding dress.
I was married May 31, 1992 in a gorgeous 1833 chapel on the Hudson River, in a day of record rainfall, wearing a dress made in about 1905, beige and white and black cotton, with a crisp cotton petticoat underneath. I loved my dress, which cost a big $300, as it was charming, comfortable, flattering and distinctive.
The marriage? Not so much. He was gone by our second anniversary and re-married within the year to a woman who attended the ceremony. Ouch!
There are few garments a woman will ever wear so subject to incredible public scrutiny and judgment, let alone meant to to carry her gracefully through such a momentous transition.
I loved this true story about a wedding dress that traveled the world, from Florida to Massachusetts to New Zealand and back twice.
And this collection of moving personal essays , published in 2007 in Canada, about women and their dresses.
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What did you wear on your wedding day?
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Plugins are the common way for extending applications. They are usually implemented as DLLs. The host application locates the plugins (either by looking in a predefined folder, or by some sort of registry setting or configuration file) then loads them one by one with LoadLibrary. The plugins are then integrated into the host application which extends it with new functionality.
This article will show how to create a host EXE with multiple plugin DLLs. We'll see how to seamlessly expose any of the host's classes, functions and data as an API to the plugins. There will be some technical challenges that we are going to solve along the way.
We'll use a simple example. The host application host.exe is an image viewer. It implements a plugin framework for adding support for different image file formats (24-bit BMP and 24-bit TGA in this example). The plugins will be DLLs and will have extension .IMP (IMage Parser) to separate them from regular DLLs. Note however, that this article is about plugins, not about parsing images. The provided parsers are very basic and for demonstration purpose only.
There are many articles describing how to implement a simple plugin framework. See [1], [2] for examples. They usually focus on two approaches:
Interfaces are base classes where all member functions are public and pure virtual, and there are no data members. For example:
// IImageParser is the interface that all image parsers
// must implement
class IImageParser
// parses the image file and reads it into a HBITMAP
virtual HBITMAP ParseFile( const char *fname )=0;
// returns true if the file type is supported
virtual bool SupportsType( const char *type ) const=0;
The actual image parsers inherit from the interface class and implement the pure virtual functions. The BMP plugin can look like this:
// CBMPParser implements the IImageParser interface
class CBMPParser: public IImageParser
virtual HBITMAP ParseFile( const char *fname );
virtual bool SupportsType( const char *type ) const;
HBITMAP CreateBitmap( int width, int height, void **data );
static CBMPParser g_BMPParser;
// The host calls this function to get access to the
// image parser
extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) IImageParser *GetParser( void )
return &g_BMPParser;
The host will use LoadLibrary to load BmpParser.imp, then use GetProcAddress("GetParser") to find the address of the GetParser function, then call it to get the IImageParser pointer.
The host keeps a list of all registered parsers. It adds the pointers returned by GetParser to that list.
When the host needs to parse a BMP file it will call SupportsType(".BMP") for each parser. If SupportsType returns true, the host will call ParseFile with the full file name and will draw the HBITMAP.
For complete sources see the Interface folder in the download file.
The base class doesn't really have to be pure interface. Technically the constraint here is that all members have to be accessible through the object's pointer. So you can have:
For example, all image parsers need the CreateBitmap function. It makes sense for it to be declared in the base class and implemented on the host side. Otherwise each parser DLL will have a copy of that function.
Another limitation of this approach is that you cannot expose any global data or global functions from the host to the plugins.
So how can we improve this?
Take a look at the USER32 module. It has two parts – user32.dll and user32.lib. The real code and data is in the DLL, and the LIB just provides placeholder functions that call into the DLL. The best part is that all this happens automatically. You link with user32.lib and automatically gain access to all functionality in user32.dll.
MFC goes a step further – it exposes whole classes that you can use directly or inherit. They do not have the limitations of the pure interface classes we discussed above.
We can do the same thing. Any base functionality you want to provide to the plugins can be put in a single DLL. Use the /IMPLIB linker option to create the corresponding LIB file. The plugins can then link with that library, and all exported functionality will be available to them. You can split the code between the DLL and the EXE any way you wish. In the extreme case shown in the sources the EXE only contains a one line WinMain function whose only job is to start the DLL.
Any global data, functions, classes, or member functions you wish to export must be marked as __declspec(dllexport) when compiling the DLL and as __declspec(dllimport) when compiling the plugins. A common trick is to use a macro:
#ifdef COMPILE_HOST
// when the host is compiling
#define HOSTAPI __declspec(dllexport)
// when the plugins are compiling
#define HOSTAPI __declspec(dllimport)
Add COMPILE_HOST to the defines of the DLL project, but not to the plugin projects.
On the host DLL side:
// CImageParser is the base class that all image parsers
// must inherit
class CImageParser
// adds the parser to the parsers list
HOSTAPI CImageParser( void );
// parses the image file and reads it into a HBITMAP
virtual HBITMAP ParseFile( const char *fname )=0;
// returns true if the file type is supported
virtual bool SupportsType( const char *type ) const=0;
HOSTAPI HBITMAP CreateBitmap( int width, int height,
void **data );
Now the base class is not constrained of being just an interface. We are able to add more of the base functionality there. CreateBitmap will be shared between all parsers.
This time instead of the host calling a function to get the parser and add it to the list, that part is taken over by the constructor of CImageParser. When the parser object is created its constructor will automatically update the list. The host doesn't need to use GetProcAddress to see what parser is in each DLL anymore.
On the plugin side:
// CBMPParser inherits from CImageParser
class CBMPParser: public CImageParser
virtual HBITMAP ParseFile( const char *fname );
virtual bool SupportsType( const char *type ) const;
static CBMPParser g_BMPParser;
When g_BMPParser is created, its constructor CBMPParser() will be called. That constructor (implemented on the plugin side) will call the constructor of the base class CImageParser() (implemented on the host side). That's possible because the base constructor is marked as HOSTAPI.
For complete sources see the DLL+EXE folder in the download file.
Wait, it gets even better:
Usually an import library is created only when making DLLs. It is a little known trick that import library can be created even for EXEs. In Visual C++ 6 the /IMPLIB option is not available directly for EXEs as it is for DLLs. You have to add it manually to the edit box at the bottom of the Link properties. In Visual Studio 2003 it is available in the Linker\Advanced section, you just have to set its value to $(IntDir)/Host.lib.
So there you go. You have a host EXE, a number of plugin DLLs, and you can share any function, class or global data in the host with all plugins. There is no need to use GetProcAddress at all, ever, since the plugins can register themselves with the host's data structures.
For complete sources see the EXE folder in the download file.
As the host application grows bigger you will want to split it into separate static libraries. And then you are going to hit a problem.
Let's say the constructor of CImageParser is in one of the libraries and not in the main project. There is no code in the main project that refers to that function (obviously, only plugins will need to call it from their own constructors). The linker, being smart, will decide there is no use for such functions and will remove it from the EXE.
So how do you trick the linker into adding the constructor to the EXE? This is a perfect task for a DEF file. A DEF file is a text file listing all symbols that the DLL or EXE will export. The linker will be forced to include them into the output, even if no code refers to them. A DEF file can look like this:
// the C++ decorated name for the CImageParser constructor
// the C++ decorated name for CImageParser::CreateBitmap
To give a DEF file to the linker in VC6 you have to manually add the option /DEF:<filename> to the command line. In VS2003 you can do that in the Linker\Input section.
How do you create the DEF file? You can do it manually by listing all symbols you want to export, or you can do it automatically:
defmaker is a simple tool that scans LIB files, finds all symbols that are exported by the libraries, and adds them to a DEF file.
// defmaker - creates a DEF file from a list of libraries.
// The output DEF file will contain all _declspec(dllexport)
// symbols from the libraries.
// /def:<def file> must be added to the linker options
// for the DLL/EXE.
// Parameters:
// defmaker <output.def> <library1.lib> <library2.lib> ...
// Part of the Plugin System tutorial
#pragma warning( disable: 4786 ) // Identifier was truncated
// to 255 characters in the debug info
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <string>
#include <set>
#include <Dbghelp.h>
struct StrNCmp
bool operator()(const std::string &s1,
const std::string &s2) const
return stricmp(s1.c_str(),s2.c_str())<0;
std::set<std::string,StrNCmp> g_Names;
static const char *EXPORT_TAG[]=
"-export:", // VC6 SP6
static bool CmpTag( const char *data )
for (int i=0;i<sizeof(EXPORT_TAG)/
if (strnicmp(EXPORT_TAG[i],data,
return true;
return false;
static bool ParseLIB( const char *fname )
int len=strlen(EXPORT_TAG[0]);
bool err=true;
// create a memory mapping of the LIB file
HANDLE hFile=CreateFile(fname,GENERIC_READ,
if (hFile!=INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
HANDLE hFileMap=CreateFileMapping(hFile,NULL,
if (hFileMap!=INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
const char *data=
(const char *)MapViewOfFile(hFileMap,
if (data) {
// search for the EXPORT_TAG and
// extract the symbols
int size=GetFileSize(hFile,NULL);
for (int i=0;i<size-len;i++)
if (CmpTag(data+i)) {
const char *text=data+i;
while (data[i]!=0 && data[i]!=' '
&& data[i]!='/' && i<size)
std::string name(text,data+i);
// add the symbols to a sorted set
return !err;
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
if (argc<3) {
printf("defmaker: Not enough command line parameters.\n");
printf("Usage: defmaker <def file> <libfiles>\n");
return 1;
for (int i=2;i<argc;i++) {
printf("!defmaker: Parsing library %s.\n",argv[i]);
if (!ParseLIB(argv[i])) {
printf("defmaker: Failed to parse library %s.\n",
return 1;
FILE *def=fopen(argv[1],"wt");
if (!def) {
printf("defmaker: Failed to open %s for writing.\n",
return 1;
for (std::set<std::string,StrNCmp>::iterator it=
g_Names.begin();it!=g_Names.end();++it) {
std::string name=*it;
int len=name.size();
if (len>5 && name[len-5]==',')
name[len-5]=' '; // converts ",DATA" to " DATA"
printf("defmaker: File %s was created successfully.\n",
return 0;
You use it like this:
defmaker <output.def> <library1.lib> <library2.lib> ...
For our example the command line is:
defmaker "$(IntDir)\host.def" "ImageParser\$(IntDir)\ImageParser.lib"
In VC6 you add this to the Pre-link step tab of the linker options. In VS2003 you do this in Build Events\Pre-Link Event in the project's options. It is going to be executed just before the linking step. Defmaker will produce the host.def file, which will then be used by the linker.
Defmaker locates the symbols by searching for the "/EXPORT:" tag in the LIB file. (Note: for some unknown reason only in VC6 service pack 6 the tag has changed to "-export:", so defmaker searches for both). The decorated C++ name of the symbol is found immediately after the tag. If the symbol refers to data instead of code it will be followed by the text ",DATA". The DEF file format requires data symbols to be marked with "<space>DATA" instead. Defmaker will convert one to the other. Probably it will be better to parse the LIB file following the official file format specs, but I have found that searching for the tags to be 100% successful.
Another use of defmaker is not related to plugins or DLLs. Sometimes you need to force the linker to include a global object even though there are no references to it. A common example is a factory system where each factory is a global object that registers itself in a list (like CImageParser does above). But if your factory object is in a static library and not in the main project the linker may decide to remove it. With defmaker you can mark the object with __declspec(dllexport) and it will be added to the EXE file.
Tip: Add the path to defmaker.exe to Visual Studio's Executable files settings. You will be able to use it from any project.
We've seen here how to create a plugin system without relying on GetProcAddress or trying to squeeze all functionality through interfaces. To expose any symbol from the host to the plugins just mark it with HOSTAPI. The rest is automatic. You have direct control which symbols to export and which not to.
You would write code in the plugin just as easily as writing code in a monolithic application or a static library. You can have access to base classes, global functions, and global data no matter if you write a plugin or a simple application. It is still a very good idea to have a clear separation between host functionality and plugin functionality, but it should be based on your own architecture and not dictated by technical limitations.
A word of caution - with great power comes great responsibility. You have the power to share as much or as little of the host's internals with the plugins. A key to a well designed plugin framework as with any design is finding the balance - in this case providing a simple yet powerful API. You need to export enough functionality to aid the plugin developers, yet hide the features that are likely to change in future versions or will needlessly compromise the stability of the host.
The source zip file contains four folders:
The sources contain project files for Visual C++ 6 and Visual Studio 2003. For Visual Studio 2005 you can open either project and convert it to the latest format.
[1] Plug-In framework using DLLs by Mohit Khanna[2] ATL COM Based Addin / Plugin Framework With Dynamic Toolbars and Menus by thomas_tom99
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
cregex crx = cregex::compile( "(-export|/EXPORT):(.*?)[\\0| |/]" );
cregex_iterator cur( data, data + size, crx );
cregex_iterator end;
for( ; cur != end; ++ cur )
cmatch const & what = *cur;
int size=GetFileSize(hFile,NULL);
for (int i=0;i<size-len;i++)>
if (CmpTag(data+i))
const char *text=data+i;
while (data[i]!=0 && data[i]!=' ' && data[i]!='/' && i<size)>
std::string name(text,data+i);
// add the symbols to a sorted set
axelriet wrote:If your app is component-based then nothing prevents the plug-ins to instantiate any of the coclasses exposed by the host, the host can also easily pass a pointer to an interface where plug-ins can access the functionality they need. Your comment about the host being unable to implement functionality for the plug-in's benefit (in interface-based schemes) is unfounded.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// without interfaces:

class HostClass

{

public:

HostClass( int add ): m_Add(add) {}

virtual int Process( int x ) { return x+m_Add; }

int GetAdd( void ) { return _Add; }

private:

int m_Add;

};

class PluginClass: public HostClass

{

public:

PluginClass( int add, int mul ): HostClass(add), m_Mul(mul) {}

virtual int Process( int x ) { return HostClass::Process(x)*m_Mul; }

int GetMul( void ) { return m_Mul; }

private:

int m_Mul;

};

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// with interfaces

class ProcessInterface

{

public:

virtual int Process( int x )=0;

};

class HostInterface: public ProcessInterface

{

public:

virtual void SetAdd( int add )=0;

virtual int GetAdd( void )=0;

};

class HostClass: public HostInterface

{

public:

virtual void SetAdd( int add ) { m_Add=add; }

virtual int Process( int x ) { return x+m_Add; }

virtual int GetAdd( void ) { return m_Add; }

private:

m_Add;

};

class PluginClass: public ProcessInterface

{

public:

PluginClass( int add, int mul ): m_Mul(mul) { m_pBase=CreateInstance(ID_HostClass); m_pBase->SetAdd(add); }

~PluginClass( void ) { m_pBase->Release(); }

virtual void Process( int x ) { return m_pBase->Process(x)*m_Mul; }

int GetAdd( void ) { return m_pBase->GetAdd(); }

int GetMul( void ) { return m_Mul; }

private:

int m_Mul;

HostInterface *m_pBase;

axelriet wrote:Unlike you say in another comment, the debugger perfectly understand interfaces and COM. You can seamlessly step through a virtual method call while debugging, in-process, out of process or even step into a method running on a remote computer, and back.
axelriet wrote:Yes it is true that COM and all interface-based calls are virtual but unless you spend your time calling the empty method, this is never going to be a problem in practice. Nobody would wrap a matrix in a COM class, for example Direct3D (a large enough interface-based framework, I hope?) uses structs and statically linked methods to manipulate entities like vectors, matrices and quaternions. You can always provide the performance-critical code in a small static library (or a DLL if you really want to save space), that plug-ins can link to.
axelriet wrote:One major drawback (and showstopper as far as I'm concerned) of the approach exposed in the article is that the plug-ins are totally tied to the host, and there is little or no hope of ever being able to reuse them in different projects.
"A word of caution - with great power comes great responsibility. You have the power to share as much or as little of the host's internals with the plugins. A key to a well designed plugin framework as with any design is finding the balance - in this case providing a simple yet powerful API. You need to export enough functionality to aid the plugin developers, yet hide the features that are likely to change in future versions or will needlessly compromise the stability of the host."
* The base class doesn't really have to be pure interface.
* Another limitation of this approach is that you cannot expose
any global data or global functions ...
It is still a very good idea to have a clear separation between
host functionality and plugin functionality, but it should be based
on your own architecture and not dictated by technical limitations.
Bjarke Viksoe wrote:As you may know, 3D Studio MAX does provide a huge interface based plugin-framework, and an interfaced-based SDK to allow developers to re-use all kinds of functionality from its library.
Bjarke Viksoe wrote:There are in fact several statements in your article that made me sad:
* The base class doesn't really have to be pure interface.
Bjarke Viksoe wrote:the joys of COM based interface-programming
Ivo Beltchev wrote:The philosophical discussion which of them is better is another topic.
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 3:08 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 4:54 pm
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As moderator of this forum I will have to disagree with Sobaguy to the extent that I welcome with open arms, links, memos and other information about where to go to make a prop from something other than a real flash.
This IS a forum of how to's and where to gets, if the information saves a flash.
Having this information will allow us to courtiously direct wayward knights onto the proper path of non-destruction.
But I doubt anybody here would cough up a spring. Springs are the weak link and you basically trash one flash to get another.
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 4:13 pm
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On 2002-07-09 08:08, sobahguy wrote:
Trot yourself over to an auction site & plunk down your $500.00 like all the other droid wannabes.
(Jerk-boy, I already HAVE a REAL 3-cell)
That would be CONSIDERABLY LESS than what i would sell ANY part of a flash for.
Was not asking for anything but a part to make it FLASH..IS that what it is not used for?? I flashed it once and the spring was trashed. I personally would like to flash it again. I do not believe that the SPRING was a part of any SW prop.
This is not a forum for how-to's or where-to-gets for destroying good photographic equipment to the chagrin of the many members here who value such things and have just as much a photographic interest in this equipment as you folks seem to have interest in mutilating it and promoting its extinction.
(READ MY POST IDIOT!! My flash is COMPLETELY ORIGINAL!!!!! NO HOLES OR ANYRTHING MISSING ON IT.)
The banner on this help board clearly state "NO SALES". Perhaps checking with your legion of fellow jedis and/or trekkies will steer you in the right direction toward whatever it is that you are "needing" so desperately.
(I am sorry if NEEDING a SPRING FOR THE BATTERY so it can work as it is designed to was a crime on a FLASH HELP BOARD!!!
The plethora of prop-making how-to websites far outnumber the sites dedicated to the use, care & preservation of graflex cameras.
(Get a life! I was looking for a simple SPRING!!! PLEASE READ MY WHOLE POST BEFORE YOU ELECT YOURSELF SPOKESMAN FOR THIS BOARD AND SLAM ME)
Best of luck.
(You are an ignorant jerk.)
Where did I say that anywhere amd I trying to buy a flash?? I believe that I wrote that I OWN a 3 cell and that it has NO HOLES DRILLED IN IT AND DOES FLASH!!.. Guess looking for something like the BATTERY SPRING is the wrong thing to do here.
I also spoke of other places to get REPLICA flashes go a real 3 cell does NOT get ruined.
Please get off of your little high horse here as I was NOT begging for ANYTHING NOR was I trying to SCAM ANYONE!!
Kindness goes a long way. Do you know me??? I think not, but with your ONLY post directed toward ME, I can safely assume that you are a pathetic arrogant JERK (I will not curse here)
Moderators and admins, I apologize for my tone, but the person who solely decided to slam me I guess did not read past the first sentence of my post. If they had, they would have realized, that I did not bastardize my 3-cell. As I tried to explain, you can use other means to convert them than drill holes etc.. I also wanted to let you all know that there might be a new reseller or pretty accurate (Non-flashable) 3-cell replicas maybe in the near future so you can forward people fishing here for a real one to the replica makers. I figured that should make everyone happy. I guess not.
If you feel my post is too inflamatory, please edit the words used and not the post as I believe i did nothing wrong here, but add to a discussion while looking for a simple part for my fully functional 3-cell.
Thank you.
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 4:20 pm
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I have sent a PM to Les on my previous post if another MOD sees it as I did write to him with some information and explanation.
Thank you
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 4:24 pm
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And BigJule,
Send me a PM and I have hardware graflex plans.
Completely built from parts you can find at hardware store. And looks great
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 6:11 pm
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i was very wrong in the way i reacted to your posting and i apologize for having misread and/or inaccurately interpreting both the tone and tenor of it. It is clear that i caused upset in this instance. surely my intention was neither to inflame nor attack either you or anyone else personnally. I should have read what you posted more closely and i should have chosen very different content in my post. I am greatly sorry for damning the integrity of this board and questioning the integrity of any one (or all) member(s). I only hope that you will accept my apology & forgive my shortsightedness (and the mistake that i made) in the same heartfelt manner in which i offer it to you.
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 10:06 pm
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Hey, now Sobahguy. Now you've really done it. That's setting a BAD precedent, here. The usual approach is just to fade into the woodwork for a couple of days, then magically appear again. This mea culpa thing is a big change. Nobody has thin skins around here! [grin].
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usually yes, alec, but i have too keep my sobriety. i screwed up and have to make amends. i was wrong, no question, period. an apology is the right thing.
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 2:58 am
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Thank you for the apology.
I also do not want any tension here.
I have enjoyed reading the posts here and do not want any animosity.
The intention of my post was for you all to be able to point prop people away from real graflex flash units to replicas that if they want to trash it..No big deal. (I personally know of 2 people that just finished doing runs of graflex replicas which I bought solely so I do not ruin my real one)
I respect the general consensus of this board toward prop makers and collectors, but truely, I know a LOT of prop collectors that own MANY 3 cells and all are still fully functional and some are also camera collectors on top of it.
I might have been harsh on my reply, but I felt that I was slammed for being a "prop collector" and not seen for who I am. A prop collector that is here because I wanted to, not to scam anyone out of their flashes.
Just FYI, I did get a hold of a spring.
Thanks to Les for understanding my reasoning of my original post.
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