Cheat Engine

[Loveness]

Hi!

I'm surprised that version 7 already appears soon, but some suggestions (which I list below) have not yet been implemented. I'm not used to post suggestions, opinions on forums, but Cheat Engine is my favorite one and I would like to contribute with some suggestions. I apologize in advance for not looking for similar topics, where my suggestions can already be posted maybe.

1) Since working with Cheat Engine can often cause crashes, because we make mistakes sometimes , you are welcome to enter the recover option, similar to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) when the program gives you the opportunity to continue what you have done, in case you accidentally kill with force the program or an unwanted crash happened. This option is not difficult to do. When the user saves a script, a pointer, or makes some changes, the program automatically saves it to a temporary folder and in the event of an unplanned shutdown, when you open Cheat Engine, it will prompt you to restore the work where you last stopped.

2) Sometimes when we open a lot of windows of the application and we need, for example, one of them to be always on top to see what happens in the given window, very often, the given window may disappear in the background after another window, and it's uncomfortable to move to another windows to find it. Therefore, I propose to add a button that will give the given window the ON TOP function, that is to say, the given window to be always displayed above the others.

3) The program should look for paths like Windows, in unicode, because the program always gives errors. For example, I have a file saved in the folder with the path: D:\Motănaș\Cheat\Doom.ct .. When I want to open this file, the program gives me the error: Failure loading the trainer. Reason: Unable to open the file: "D:\Motana?\Cheat\Doom.ct"

Thank you :)

[mgr.inz.Player]

1) For now, many people are using Lua script for this. As a CE feature I think it can be done with ease. Maybe I will finish GitHub PR before official CE7.1

2) Maybe a small AlwaysOnTop window "Bring to front lost window" we can enable.

3) it is a launcher problem. If you drag and drop Doom.ct from location which has non-ascii chars on "Cheat Engine.exe", you will see the error. If you drag&drop on "cheatengine-i386.exe" or "cheatengine-x86_64.exe" it will open without issues.

[Corroder]

[mgr.inz.Player]

@Loveness
About launcher. Try this one:
https://github.com/mgrinzPlayer/tmp/files/4466441/CheatEngineLauncher.zip (diff)



@Corroder

[Loveness]

[Dark Byte]

for the language support look at the languages folder in your ce install folder.

there create a new folder for your language, copy the .po files to there and do some translations.

There is already a russian translation for CE at https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/tree/master/Cheat%20Engine/bin/languages/ru_RU

check out "how add languages.txt"

[Corroder]

[mgr.inz.Player]

I think I finished "Backupper" for CE. It is not a Lua script.

It works in two modes:
- normal: saves current work in justanexample.~ct when you are working on justanexample.ct
- paranoid: saves current work as justanexample.ct.fourrandomdigits inside backup folder. fourrandomdigits are generated once per session. Can create many copies if your PC or CE crash often.

Backupper detects ".~ct" backup file and will suggest loading it instead.


Before I sent as github PullRequest, you can test it here:



Binaries:
https://github.com/mgrinzPlayer/tmp/files/4467535/Backupper.zip
It's Backupper for CE. If you want to help me test this feature, first be sure to make manual backup of all your CT files, RAR or 7zip your "My Cheat Tables" folder

DIFF
https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/compare/master...mgrinzPlayer:backupmaker?expand=1



Edit:
As usual something went wrong. I have to reinstall "GitHub Desktop"... eh

Edit:
Done. My native language is not english. Any suggestions are welcome.

Edit:
I changed it a little diff. Download and test again. Thank you.

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[daspamer]

@mgr.inz.Player
Backupper works flawlessly here, with on exception, if for instance the process is shut for instance via task manager (application not process) or taskkill (without forcing), it will shut down C.E and remove the backup, only if forcibly the backup remains.
If running into infinite loop in lua, crashing the process will keep the backup, very handy for all users.

On side note it seems that if closing C.E without saving, CE will not ask if we'd want to save the table,but rather instantly close, only if we load the table, that might be the reason why backups are removed when attempting to shut down the process.

Another bug, drag and drop fails to load the tables.

[mgr.inz.Player]

Thank you for your feedback.

[panraven]

@'Lua Script:cheat table'

Add a backup step after clicking 'execute' but before actually run the lua script?
It probably remove the need of 5000ms delay or frequently backup.

Thank you~

[mgr.inz.Player]

[mgr.inz.Player]

Another update I think I'm close to submit it as github PR.



Info:
- "Make backup files while saving" - makes a copy example.~1.CT, then example.~2.CT, example.~3.CT, ..., then again example.~1.CT

- "Enable session backup" - creates example.~CT file and updates it

- "Paranoid mode" - creates example.ABCD-EFGH~CT, after 15 minutes, it will create example.QWER-TYUO~CT. You have to deal with those files manually (restoring,removing).

Download:
https://github.com/mgrinzPlayer/tmp/files/4472443/Backupper.zip

DIFF:
https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/compare/master...mgrinzPlayer:Backupper?expand=1



Session backups are done when you are editing your CT.
I added additional point just before executing Lua script when you click button inside "Lua script:Cheat Table"

If you have CE source you can add (or DB) more "session backup points" with this line:

[Loveness]

[mgr.inz.Player]