Cheat Engine

Fresco · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:00 pm Post subject: Improvement suggestion

Since I usually use very complex coding in the auto assembler, I find myself having to declare all labels using "label(labelname)" It is very confusing having to declare them all.

My suggestion is to remove the necessity to declare labels in the auto assembler, but still leave features such as registersymbol(labelname)
That is if it is possible.

Thank You!

STN · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:52 am Post subject:

+1 I agree. It gets tiring indeed when making tons of options or writing a lengthy script.

Alternatively, if that is not possible, being able to define a lot of labels at once would be nice. Something like this
label(label1, label2, labeln...)

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:05 am Post subject:

I may be able to add it, but script execution may slow down then because it will only be able to determine it's a label after having parsed the whole script, and then it has to start over again

For those that don't want to wait and implement it themself, look into registerAutoAssemblerPrologue and use it to parse the script for missing label definitions and add them (keep in mind not to insert a label for alloc, define, aobscan, aobscanmodule, symbols or registered symbols)

zm0d · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:29 am Post subject:

++METHOS · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:40 am Post subject:

Would that still be the case if the labels were defined automatically, anytime registersymbol was used? Essentially, you would just be combining two functions in to one, right? For example:

Fresco · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:20 pm Post subject:

Maybe it's too much asking or daring, but I'm going to suggest another improvement anyway.

You could have the Auto Assembler dynamically calculate the size ( in bytes ) of each instructions as (the instructions) are written.
So that, when creating a loop we can write something like

Dark Byte · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:30 pm Post subject:

a lot of coding and effort to make scripts look ugly and hard to follow...
(and not to mention that ce might insert some random nops inbetween just for the fun of it)
anyhow you can use @@: labels and @f to reference to the next @@ label and @b to reference the previous one

SteveAndrew · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:33 am Post subject:

I second that! The result just wouldn't be worth it. The auto label / labelless support though sounds like a great feature! I hear that it's already implemented in the svn, I'll have to pull the latest version to find out Smile

How about an "invoke" where:

++METHOS · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:47 pm Post subject:

Since we're talking about it, there are a lot of ways that the script builder can be improved on. A few examples, just off the top of my head:

Maybe something like this (or with auto-complete feature or hotkeys for common items):

Something like this for easily combining multiple scripts:

++METHOS · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:32 am Post subject:

Another feature that would be nice to have, would be having the ability to save these line groupings (maybe by right-clicking on the little arrow?) so that they are permanent, but can be edited and removed. I have some scripts that are pushing 2000 lines, and it can sometimes be an arduous task to sift through.