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ymiu · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 16 Dec 2018 Posts: 41

I'm playing around in Salt. I've managed to discover a pointer to my inventory structure. Through this, I've populated a subset of the item struct that shows attributes from any single item in that list, so I can effectively view & modify what I want.

The problem is that it's ungainly to update the item index and then refresh the item structure in order to view and potentially edit its attributes. My inventory currently has about 150 items, and it could potentially expand up to several hundred. The order of item indices is not so obvious that I can quickly navigate to the index of any particular item I'm searching for. It would be easier if I could just browse through a list of all of the items and pick out what I'm looking for, by name. I would have to be able to refresh this list as-needed, to account for new items that I pick up.

Despite the large size, I'd like to be able to print out a series of table entries for every item in my inventory. Whenever I pick up new items, I would just scrap and rebuild the list with a script. I'm open to alternatives, but this is the best approach I can think of. Each item entry would have 4 nested attributes. Each of the items is offset from the inventory base by +10+n*4 where n is the item index. I've already identified an inventory attribute that tells how many items are in the list, so I'll use that to denote max-n in a loop.

I'm still quite new to LUA, so I'm sure it'll take me awhile to get something working. I figured I'd post this description in case anyone with more experience would like to weigh in with some wisdom on how best to tackle this, or to provide an alternative.

Thanks!

FreeER · Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:30 am Post subject:

Yeah... I'm really not sure of a good way to handle this in CE. I mean, you can add memory records to the address list and even mark them to not be saved in the table and set the addresses but... that's a lot of records to scroll through.

CE does have a ListView which seems perfect at first but it doesn't really seem to have any support for editing columns/subitems. Guess you could have a scroll panel with a few labels and a ton of edit boxes Rolling Eyes

Though... actually you can generate and open structures with code now so you could probably do it in structure dissect fairly well.

Something like

ymiu · Cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 16 Dec 2018 Posts: 41

Very cool... I didn't know I could build my own structure. You're right that the structure dissector window is a great place to do this... it keeps the table cleaner, and that gives me incentive to add excess columns to handle new items that I pick up along the way, since the offsets are predictable. That way I don't have to keep re-generating the inventory list/struct too often as it expands.

Many thanks =)