I've read through the other threads concerning the LS API, but it seems like things have changed. I have a sample and documentation that they provide, honestly it's beyond my current knowledge of c++ so I'm hoping to get some advice here on how to get started. The docs tell you how to create a graybox extension using the MS foundation class.. which I assume is the easiest/fastest way to get something up and running. I've been learning on VC++ Express but a lot of the code provided by LS shows errors in this IDE. A few questions I have are: Is that because it is using managed code not compatible with this compiler? Do you need Visual Studio Pro to access the MFC? Is there a way around it?
Well, MFC is unmanaged c++. Hard to say what is causing the errors without knowing what the error message was.
MFC (Microsoft foundation classes) are only distributed with VS Professional or higher. I do not know LS API but MFC is programming layer over Win 32 API. Accessing Win 32 API directly is another option. It is not recommended unless you know what you are doing and it is a lot of work plus it may be of limited use in the future .
maybe, but i didn't post any code or anything specific from the docs. why.. u thinking about ratting on me?
It is probably an old link like bellman posted. If you didn't get this from lightspeed then you need to email them, then sign the NDA then they will send you an ftp link and a username/pass to access.