Registering Lobby-Aware Applications

In order to be recognized and launched by a DirectPlay lobby client, an application needs to be entered as a DirectPlay application in the system registry. Normally you would register the application during setup, which requires creating a DirectPlayLobby3 object in the setup program. The application must also be unregistered when it is uninstalled.

[C++]

You can register your application by filling in the DPAPPLICATIONDESC or DPAPPLICATIONDESC2 structure with the necessary information, then passing it to IDirectPlayLobby3::RegisterApplication. To remove the registry entries, call IDirectPlayLobby3::UnRegisterApplication.

You can also register a lobby-aware application during the DirectX setup process, by calling the DirectXRegisterApplication function. The advantage of this function is that it can be called before the DirectPlay run-time files have been installed.

[Visual Basic]

You can register your application by filling in the DPAPPLICATIONDESC2 type with the necessary information, then passing it to DirectPlayLobby3.RegisterApplication. To remove the registry entries, call DirectPlayLobby3.UnRegisterApplication.