Using beamer plugin

Hi, i was hoping that someone might be able to help me get beamer (BeamerTool.zip) working. I didn't know that i was using DMXC version 2.11 on my laptop, so uninstalled and installed 2.12.2. That caused a few problems, spent half the night working through those. I thought it probably was because i was using an old version. No difference though, i still get the same error. There are no instructions that i can understand except from what i got, you just copy Beamer.out.dll to the plugins folder, is that right? I also tried copying the entire folder tree from that file, same results with other errors as well.

So with just the dll, i launch dmxc, and get:

The plugin 'Beamer.out.dll' does not implement class IDMXCPlugin correctly. The plugin is not compatible with this verion of dmxcontrol. Error 13: type mismatch

I am using beamertool from this link:

http://www.dmxcontrol.org/downloads/file/3-beamertool.html

Has anyone else had this problem.

I can't end a message without saying what a fantastic program DMXC is. I haven't had a chance to start with version 3 yet, but it looks pretty top notch as well.

Thanks!

Rob T.

I forgot to say, i did spend a lot of time searching, i was finding tons of help, but all of it was in german:). Translating pages works, but the translation usually gets muddled and the results are useful only as general clues..

Thanks for the help everyone!

@Stefan, it sounds like from what you said that beamer isn't a plugin for dmxC, but a separate app that dmxc interacts with via network, so i would run it using its EXE?

I copied the plugin to the root install folder, then ran the pluginadmin program, this time it appeared under the output plugins tab. I ran the program and put a check in it. So i was trying to use it as a regular plugin instead of an output plugin, and it seems to work now. But i am stuck again! I tried to find english documentation but couldn't:).

It says now error during activation- the callee (server [not server application]) is not available and disappeared; all connections are invalid. The call may have executed. try again?

Retries just give the same error. I think this probably is what stefan was talking about, but i have no idea what to do. I bought a 3000 lumens video projector because i think it's really fantastic some of the videos that i saw, hopefully i can get it working. Not a newb, have done lots work with net apps, but had no idea it was a net based program. Any guidance?

If i hit configure selected plugin (from within the program), nothing happens. If i hit the same button from within pluginadministration.exe, it says this plugin sends broadcast to port 12000. Again probably what stefan was saying, i think i need dmxc to talk to the beamertool.exe via port 12000? With that info, i ran beamertool.exe, several icons for LAV video decoder properties appeared down by the clock icon (5 or six of them) with more video codec options that i don't know a lot about. I used options in the black screen for beamertool, it showed different output plugins, but none had a place to use port 12000, artnet did have subnet mask.. Any ideas? Is there english documentation that i missed? Maybe i'm not seeing right, but from looks, this plugin might get pretty complex, would hate to make everyone take time to help if there is already english docs somewhere:)

Thanks!

Rob T.

Thanks jpk, i am using xp sp3 for testing, but will be using win7 once i get the new laptop, will keep that in mind..

Any other suggestions? I still haven't been able to find any
instructions. I have this new video projector that i bought specifically
to work with dmxc. It looked pretty easy, but that was before:)