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

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

adoxa

Not entirely just sure what you want, but find [d]attached[/d] how I interpreted it. It will detect changes to EXE\externalmsg.txt and add them to the chat output window. It assumes the file is in UTF-8 (BOM optional) and only one line is written each update (although adding multiple lines shouldn’t be hard). It uses STYLE_EXTERNAL, so define it in DATA\FONTS\rich_fonts.ini and choose your own color (you might also like to make it italic).

viper

Yay! you dont believe how thankful I am.
That was exactly what I was asking for.
Thank you very much!!!

M1C

Wow! Adoxa that’s awesome !
Thanks!

MfG

viper

Hm I have one problem, I tryed now many hours to find an solution but none of my solutions realy worked
The problem is after I write one time into externalmsg.txt the file is blocked by Freelancer and im not able to write into it again until u unlock it manually.
I also tryed to add
remove(“externalmsg.txt”);
after it writes into Freelancer chat but its just dirty solution and it doesnt work well.
Afte some time it get not longer deleted and old problem that im not able to write into the file start again.
Do you have any ideas how to solve that issue?
Maybe use registry instead of externalmsg.txt would work better? although I dont know how to do this

[Edit]
I tried now this, I added
if( _unlink( “externalmsg.txt” ) == -1 )
return;

after

fclose( file );

If seams that it fixed the problem that I was not able to write into externalmsg.txt.
But now an other problem occur which has nothing to do with my changes. It also random crash with your dll if I write to fast to many data into externalmsg.txt I get this crash:
http://www.imagebanana.com/view/eslvll36/error.jpg

[Edit2]
Im not shure but it seams tab into game and out during it write into chatlog result faster in a crash…

Any Ideas?

adoxa

If you’re creating the file each time, replace ReadDirectoryChangesW with the synchronous version - replace “&overlapped, Modified” with “NULL, NULL” and remove the time flag. Replace SleepEx with a call to Modified and remove everything in the condition except the last two lines. Depending on how you’re writing to externalmsg.txt, it might also be an idea to deny read on it, forcing the dll to wait for it to become available.

In my limited testing using a redirected echo, there was no problem with locks. However, I didn’t have ChatLog running, as well.

If your main focus is on translation, I would do away with ExternalMsg altogether and do it all in ChatLog. Have ChatLog call/execute the translator and receive/wait for the translation, then append to (or replace) the current message.