Ingamechat read(log) / write "bridge" to use with other tools?

adoxa

I think this is what you’re after.

viper

exactly thank you very much

viper

Adoxa you have any idea why for some few people the chatlog.dll does not work ?
I does not get load into freelancer for some unknown reason -.-
I tried with dacom.ini and also to inject manually both does not work.
Windows is XP SP3
Before he reinstalled his windows it worked but now it doesnt. Strange…

adoxa

No, sorry. It doesn’t do/use anything special, so it should work (still works with my XP SP3).

viper

It works with my too only since the one m8 reinstalled his windows it does not work the dll get not loaded into fl.
I also tried other dlls to inject or load. Same strange problem.

Huor

ever tried depends.exe (dependencywalker) to recognize if there seems to be another problem?

adoxa

I really don’t know what to tell you. I’ve [d]attached[/d] the same thing, but compiled without optimizations and without dependency on msvcrt.dll.

viper

Thank you very much that was right hint.
There was an dependency to MSVCR90.DLL part of
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)
and this was not installed.

[Edit]
I changed something and recompiled it that was the problem^^
How you compiled it without this dependencys?

[Edit2]
Ok got it ^^

M1C

Is there a way to include the “New player”/“Departing player” messages?

MfG
M!C

adoxa

Chat Log updated to log new & departing players.

M1C

wow thanks
Do you know a tutorial to find these offsets?
Or have I to learn it myself?

MfG
M!C

adoxa

Well, I never needed a tutorial, so I don’t know if one is available. It’s been asked a few times, so I guess not. No, I won’t be writing one, sorry. To DIY something like this would require a fair knowledge of assembly.

viper

Any idea how to let it log also Cyrillic alphabet correctly?
At the moment i only geht ??? if someone write in Cyrillic

adoxa

I could write it as UTF-8 or -16, which would you prefer?

viper

[Edit]I need UTF-8

StarTrader

I thought it should be UTF-16, 2 bytes, for covering most languages?

adoxa

Updated to write the log file as UTF-8 (including the byte-order marker).

viper

thank you very much

OutCast

StarTrader wrote:
I thought it should be UTF-16, 2 bytes, for covering most languages?

offtopic :
Not exactly. The way i understand it Unicode is this kinda ‘virtual’ characters table (Unicode != UTF16).
And in practice it is represented in transformation formats (UTFs), where number shows minimal amount of bits per character. But it could use more than that. For instance, Cyrillic letters use 2 bytes in utf8.
So any UTF can represent full Unicode space, as i understand it.

viper

With this new chatlog.dll you can log chinese and russian so I think all languages will work with it

I was playing a bit to create an Translator for Freelancerchat using the google ajax, thats why i was asking for utf-8 support.

It works now translation isnt perfect all the time but much better then nothing
Its also possible to translate with an command single words ingame.
Now just one thing is missing. At the moment I use an dx overlay to show translation ingame but it does not work well with all graphic cards some get low fps cause of it :(.

So I ask if you adoxa can make me happy again and write me an dll that read a textline from a file and then put it with a hook into freelancerchat like this:

I dont need to send it to server just put it to the Freelancerchatlog in the game maybe with color change support if this is possible.

If that would possible i could complete my Freelancer Translationplugin to make it easyer for player to understand foreign languages and to write in foreign languages