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Bosparan
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 Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 9:43 am Post subject: [Resolved]Central Dropdown Selection List Possible? |
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Hi,
is there a way in Cheat Engine to create and maintain a central list of Dropdown Selection options?
Example:
A game has a hundred skills. Each of these 100 skill structures have a 4-byte numeric value that represents the Element of the skill (Let's say: Normal, Fire, Water, Earth and Wind). This is a perfect case to use such a Dropdown Selection list, allowing the final table user to select text that means something for him, instead of dealing with numbers.
With my current (non-too-impressive) CE skills, I'd need to manually add that Dropdown List to all Skills. And if I later figured out there also were "Light" and "Dark" elements, I'd need to go back and fix each manually again ...
Is there any way to provide a central list and simply link it to individual values?
Currently, I'm helping myself by generating the table XML using PowerShell, but that adds significant complexity to the development and the final table will be rather ... large (I've produced tables that were more than 5MB big, which makes them troublesome to share on the cheatengine forums. Example: 100 Character slots, each has 5 Equipment slots, each of which has (the same) 400 Options - that's a total of 200,000 lines of options in the XML).
Cheers,
Bosparan
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panraven
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mgr.inz.Player
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Unfortunately CE doesn't have global Dropdown List. But, you can use a Lua trick to create something similar. Virtual global dropdown list.
Normally, dropdown list is a collection of "number:description" (e.g. "2:two") pairs.
You can write down there anything you want, e.g.:
| Code: | 2:two
3:three
4:four
5:five
6:six |
But also you can use garbage too:
| Code: | loremipsum1
garbage1
garbage2
loremipsum2
loremipsum3 |
Selecting anything from above will yeld "could not be parsed".
But we can write a unique name of our "virtual global dropdown list" there.
For example "mydropdownlist". Use the same thing for each entry.
Add new entry to the table (AA script), and use this:
| Code: | [ENABLE]
{$Lua}
local function addDropDownList(list, listName, ...)
local DropDownReadOnly,DropDownDescriptionOnly,DisplayAsDropDownListItem=...
local al=getAddressList()
for i=0,al.Count-1 do
if al[i].DropDownList.Text:match(listName) then
al[i].DropDownList.Text = list
al[i].DropDownReadOnly=DropDownReadOnly
al[i].DropDownDescriptionOnly=DropDownDescriptionOnly
al[i].DisplayAsDropDownListItem=DisplayAsDropDownListItem
end
end
end
local aList=[[
1:Normal
2:Fire
3:Water
4:Earth
5:Wind]]
addDropDownList( aList, "mydropdownlist", true, false, true)
{$Asm}
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The aList contains all lines you normally use in Dropdown List. It's our virtual global dropdown list.
addDropDownList function will set this virtual global dropdown list to all memory records which have dropdown list with line "mydropdownlist"
addDropDownList( aList, "mydropdownlist", true, false, true)
those three last parameters are:
disallow manual user input - set to true
only show the description part - set to false
make the record display values like the dropdown list - set to true
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Zanzer
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:22 am Post subject: |
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If your list is really big, you can include a text file with the table so that it gets compressed.
This will populate a list with each line of an included table file called "dropdown.txt".
| Code: | local dropdown = findTableFile("dropdown.txt")
local stream = dropdown.Stream
local value = createStringStream()
value.copyFrom(stream, stream.Size)
value = value.DataString
local aList = {}
local function helper(line) table.insert(aList, line) return "" end
helper((value:gsub("(.-)\r?\n", helper)))
-- aList is now populated |
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Bosparan
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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@mgr.inz.Player: Thank you for your solution, this looks like a perfect fit, thank you so much for your aid.
@Zanzer: Interesting solution to import from a file, thank you for sharing. I try to maintain all within a single table file, but it really might come in handy for the seriously overblown files (a certain list of 400 items comes to mind ...). Either way, a good technique to add to my knowledgebase, thanks.
Edit:
I ended up building the entire table dynamically in lua, since it was just more economical to add new features (e.g.: Adding a new stat on all characters can be done with adding a single line). Here's the finished table:
http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?p=5712003#5712003
(Grab the latest version)
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