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oddgamer · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 3:17 pm Post subject: Copy/Paste Groups?

So I've got a game where I'm setting myself up to adjust an absolute ton of info, and thus I've put it into groups to make it easier to find what I want to change at this point.
A LOT of those groups, though, are basically the same thing over and over, such as putting all the information for a character under a header and then all of the info for another char under a different group. In the worst cases there were dozens of groups (again, to make it easier).
As such, I wanted to copy and paste my groups. So I collapsed them all to make it easier to copy and paste multiple groups at the same time, pressed ctrl+c, then crtl+v, and it asked for an offset and changes. Put those in, told it to go ahead, opened the newly created collapsed groups... and no changes in address!
Do I have a setting somewhere that causes this, or is this something in the program? If it's in the program... may I suggest it be altered? Either to do the updates generally or, if there's a reason one might want to NOT change the addresses within (can't think of one myself right now, but hey), then have the program set up to HAVE a setting that decides what to do with sub-items in those cases?

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:21 pm Post subject:

Make the child memory records have addresses relative to the parent's record by specifying them as "+X", where X is some hexadecimal string.
e.g. a memory record with address "+10" placed under another memory record with effective address "07918AEC" will have an effective address of "07918AFC".
Lua code to automate this (make a backup before you execute this):

oddgamer · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 1:42 am Post subject:

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 11:11 am Post subject:

If the address adjust in copy/pasting memory records affected children, it would break the already existing feature I just mentioned.

Setting child memory records' addresses relative to their parent allows you to change all of them easily by simply changing the parent memory record. This is how I'd set it up based on what you described. If you don't like that, use Lua to automate it however you want.

oddgamer · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 5:42 pm Post subject:

Can a header have an address, then? I was mostly thinking it should apply just to sub-fields of headers, not of ones that already have an address. As it stands, the program seems to treat headers as if they were normal address entries just like any other.

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 7:43 pm Post subject:

By default, it's 0. Lua can change it: