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[I_was_a_legend]

I am building an item list with all specific data corresponding to each item.
The issue is that there are over one thousand different items and over a dozen values for each one of them.

I am able to get the values I need using an over pointer : in game I put the mouse over the entry and CE is able to give me all the data I need.

Is it possible to log all desired data using a "trigger" like thing on a pointer address something like "if this particular address changes then log all these values from these addresses" ?

[I_was_a_legend]

Ok so I'm trying to get there, first of all, I'm trying to write any string in a file. So I created a script attached to the Brave browser and the code looks like this :

[ParkourPenguin]

[I_was_a_legend]

Thank you for your answer !

Noob question : how do you debug your code ? I wonder where "print" is printing inside Cheat engine, does a popup come up ? Well I'm not on my machine so I cannot test that out yet...

For the implementation rather than setting a timer I was thinking about an infinite loop which would break once I unable the script. What do you think about that method ? I'm a little afraid about a memory burst somewhere I'm not used to this low level programmation. Usually the framework does all the job for me ahahaha (java, js, php...)

[Dark Byte]

if you execute it in lua engine you can set a breakpoint and when executed it will break there. You can then inspect local variables by hovering the mouse over them

so first test your code inside lua engine with test data, before pasting it into a memory record

[ParkourPenguin]

Timers pretty much are infinite loops. They run periodically, forever, until they're disabled or destroyed.
You can't have a simple infinite loop like this:

[I_was_a_legend]

I have a huge problem : once I am inside a loop any changes in CE will provoke a crash.

Example : I have a for loop of 5 iterations that just prints an address's value, sleeps for 5 sec then repeat.
If I do nothing, it ends well, and I have my 5 prints. If I try to get the focus on CE while the loop is running it crashes instantly (not responding. I wait some time to get it back but I got to quit and restart). It also crashes if one of the values used inside the loop changes too frequently.

Any idea on what's going on here ?

[Dark Byte]

never use sleep() unless you use threads

[I_was_a_legend]

Ok one more thing I have an odd behavior here :

[Dark Byte]

1: you're opening the file twice but only close it in disable


2: are you sure the file was empty when you started?
do you have another script that sets firstTime to empty or nil?

3: your lua script doesn't check if syntaxcheck is set. So when editing the script both scripts will execute each time you edit the code

[I_was_a_legend]

Thanks to you two I finished the script I wanted ! Thank you very much

It took me some time to wrap my head around the timer mechanics for some reason... And after trying lots of different things looking everywhere on Google I realized ... I had the exact same code you @ParkourPenguin provided me right from the beginning ! LOL
At least now I know how and why it works ahaha.

Here is my code if it might be useful to someone passing by :