Last Ray of Hope

The functionality of the DLL grew and grew as more people asked for more features.

One of these features was a better uptime counter, since the function I was using was GetTickCount(), with 32 bits representing milliseconds, it was limited for 49.7 days before it would rollover back to the beginning again.

I found a value in the registry that was updated regularly and was used to store a 64 bit uptime, though it was documented as not reliable to use on all system.

This new uptime counter allowed up 585 million years to pass before a rollover, which for systems using Windows, was very doubtful would be able to achieve.

Eventually it was requested for KalDLL to also have the ability to output information about what is currently playing in Winamp.

So after a bit of research again, I found that using the Windows message system, I could retrieve information about the current song and artist being played in Winamp.