How to recompile Adoxa's dll src

NeXoSE

LOL

This recalls my memory when I first start to work on Freelacner 6 years ago as a person that has NO experience on programming.

When I want’s to write any code, the compile only gives error I can’t even know what it saying.

Back to topic:

@JONG

Do you use GUI? If you can use your Visual Studio load that ‘dsw’ file, you may follow this:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/34c30xs1(v=vs.71).aspx

There will be a text box at right side of ‘Module Definition File’ for you to fillin ‘Common.def’.

And then, you may try to build with it.

BTW: I don’t receive any email from you, did you send it?

JONG

I have not your email……

So I can’t send any files to you.

And may you give me your email address?

Then I can send the file to you, then please make some command line order like:

msdev flhook.dsw /make "all - win32release"

for me to help me make a command line order to compiler the FLHook of source code.

Or if you already have last FLHook source code, and it can compiler with the command line order, please send to me and teach me how to do that.

Thanks for your help again. ^_^

JONG

@Adoxa:

When I change the source code:

STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
  0, "Entered %Zv1"    // or just "%Z" if you prefer, e.g.:
  1, "Left %Zv1"       // "Entered the Badlands." vs "Badlands".
}

“Entered” to my Chinese language like “進入”, then recompiler the source code to dll file, no any error was find, compiler successful.

Then when I go into the game, first time when I into a zone, the text will show up, but when I go out the zone, no any text show up, even I go into the zone again, no any text show up.

Do you know what’s mistakke? can’t change the dll text to other language?

NeXoSE

That’s weird, I did replied your PM.

Here is my email addr: [email protected]

Please expecting about 6 hour delay for reply.

NeXoSE

JONG wrote:
@Adoxa:

When I change the source code:

STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
  0, "Entered %Zv1"    // or just "%Z" if you prefer, e.g.:
  1, "Left %Zv1"       // "Entered the Badlands." vs "Badlands".
}

……

Wait a minute.

If this is all you want to do, you can try to download a ResHacker here: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

And use it to edit the pre-compiled DLL file.

JONG

Thanks for your reply, I was send email to you, hope I may get your help. ^_^

And I’m very fool to forget the tools, thanks again for your help.

JONG

NeXoSE wrote:

Wait a minute.

If this is all you want to do, you can try to download a ResHacker here: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

And use it to edit the pre-compiled DLL file.

Ok, I finish my test, same like before, even I use the ResHacker to edit the English, when I go in the game, the zone still only show once time.

I think maybe is the source code limit that.

adoxa

I changed it to [c]L"\x9032\x5165 %Zv1."[/c] and it seemed to work fine (single player, using Console to jump in & out of the zone). Of course, that’s quite inconvenient, but switching to Unicode also worked (so it was [c]“進入 %Zv1”[/c], with the whole file as UTF-16; UTF-8 didn’t work with VC6).

JONG

May you can tell me where am I need to change the source code to let the Chinese working fine?

Or maybe you can help me to change:

Entered %Zv1\. Left %Zv1.

to

進入 %Zv1 離開 %Zv1

Please note in the “%Zv1” of end no the “.” symbol.

Thanks for your reply and your amazing plugin.

NeXoSE

@JONG

He’s already told you:

Open: http://macchiato.com/unicode/convert.html

Set “Input” (The left side) to Text -> Simple
Set “Output” (The right side) to UTF-16M -> Base 16

Then, enter text you want, for example: “進入”

After you done, click the > button in the middle

What you should get is two number: 9032 5165

This two number represent the two characters you just inputed.

Now you do a little convert manually by give each number a prefix \x, and remove the space between them, So it will be something like \x9032\x5165.

When \x9032\x5165 enters Freelancer, it will be your text “進入”.

If you had a lot of text needs to convert, AND you are using Firefox, Chrome or lastest IE (v11), you may:

0. Make sure you still on page: http://macchiato.com/unicode/convert.html
1. Press F12, it will pop up Development Gear if the web browser
2. Switch to “Console” tab
3. Paste following code in the Console Command Input and hit Enter:

$('[name="mainTextOutput"]').value = "\\x" + ($('[name="mainTextOutput"]').value.split(" ").join("\\x"))

JONG

So you mean that, I can just use the ResHacker, then change the:

Entered %Zv1

into the

\x9032\x5165 %Zv1

Am I right?

Thanks for your time to help me slove it.

adoxa

Actually, I simply meant load [c]Zone.rc[/c] in Notepad (or equivalent) and save it as Unicode - you can then type in Chinese as normal and [c]rc[/c] will compile it as usual.

As you’ve probably discovered by now, ResHacker doesn’t support [c]\x[/c], but I was able to just copy and paste the symbols from here, which apparently compiled successfully. Ah, but I’m using the fx version, which may make a difference.

NeXoSE

adoxa wrote:
Actually, I simply meant load [c]Zone.rc[/c] in Notepad (or equivalent) and save it as Unicode - you can then type in Chinese as normal and [c]rc[/c] will compile it as usual.

As you’ve probably discovered by now, ResHacker doesn’t support [c]\x[/c], but I was able to just copy and paste the symbols from here, which apparently compiled successfully. Ah, but I’m using the fx version, which may make a difference.

Sorry, I didn’t test for that method.

But I think he’s has difficulty to compile it in the first place.
(He’s acutally asked me in Chinese with PM before started this topic. And I did that compile as well and got same problem with that missing symbol)

And I find that if I change:

#define IMPORT __declspec(dllimport)

to

#define IMPORT __declspec(dllexport)

and use following makefile,

# Makefile (VC6) for Zone.
# Jason Hood, 24 February, 2014.

CPPFLAGS = /nologo /W3 /O2 /MD /LD /EHsc

Zone.dll: Zone.cpp Zone.res Common.lib
	cl $(CPPFLAGS) $** user32.lib /link /base:0x6140000 /filealign:512

Common.lib: Common.def
	lib /nologo /machine:ix86 /def:Common.def

The code will compile, but I think I better shut up before understanded what’s the different between dllimport and dllexport.
(Yeah, seriously, I had an IDA Pro book(The IDA Pro Book infact), and I don’t even finish menu readout after 3 years from purchase, so I definitely don’t know what it says about this two differents.)

And directly change the RC file did causes the problem he’s had right now. (Message only show once). And I sadly found that ResHacker don’t have the capacity to export and then import Res/RC files.

And the “zone.rc in Unicode” way looks has same result as edit with ResHacker, no matter I directly enter Chinese and save those file with Unicode or convert them into \x and save them into ANSI.

My programming experience is really low

JONG

adoxa wrote:
Actually, I simply meant load [c]Zone.rc[/c] in Notepad (or equivalent) and save it as Unicode - you can then type in Chinese as normal and [c]rc[/c] will compile it as usual.

Thanks Adoxa, and yes, I by all means try to solve this problem, then I find:

1.If I in the Traditional Chinese of Windows system to open and edit the Zone.rc file, then use the “Simplified Chinese” to change the

Entered %Zv1

to

进入 %Zv1

then save it as Unicode, its work fine in the game like you do.

2.If I in the Traditional Chinese of Windows system to open and edit the Zone.rc file, then use the “Traditional Chinese” to change the

Entered %Zv1

to

進入 %Zv1

even I save it as Unicode, its only show in game at once.

3.If I in the Simplified Chinese of Windows system to open and edit the Zone.rc file, then use the “Traditional Chinese” or “Simplified Chinese” to change the

Entered %Zv1

to

进入 %Zv1

or

進入 %Zv1

even I save it as Unicode, its only show in game at once.

So, you see, that’s very strange.

And I find why I can compile successfully at first time(No.1), that’s when I want to save the Zone.rc file, the notepad warning me want to save ANSI or Unicode, then I choice the Unicode.

But when I do the No.2 or No.3 of way to change the Zone.rc file, the notepad hasn’t any warning, even I choice the ANSI to save(of cause, when I compile it, I use the Unicode to save, but still no different).

After I use the ResHacker to check:

The work fine of dll file use 2052 languages code(Simplified Chinese), and the other two use the 2052 languages code(Simplified Chinese) and 1028 languages code(Traditional Chinese).

If I use the ResHacker to change the dll languages code, no matter what I do, still can not work fine in the game.

Have any idea about that?

@NeXoSE:

The attachment file is I recompile successfully and work fine in the game of dll, but it only test in the Traditional Chinese of Windows system, maybe you can test in your Simplified Chinese Windows system, and see what you get.

NeXoSE

@JONG:

Are you sure? I loaded the dll to ResHacker and saw:

STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_CHINESE, 0x2
{
0, 	"进入 %Zv1"
1, 	"脱离 %Zv1"
}

It’s not in Traditional Chinese at all.

And it’s not working properly in game – The message only show once, meaning there only “Enter” message, no “Leave” and further “Enter” / “Leave” pair.

JONG

Yes, I mean that, the dll file is use the “Simplified Chinese” to make and work fine in my Traditional Chinese Windows system.

So I want you to test in your Simplified Chinese Windows system to make sure what I guess, right now I know the answer.

The answer is:

If you use the different language words to change the rc file and compile it on your Windows system(like me use the Simplified Chinese words to change the English words in my Traditional Chinese Windows system, and if you want to do same thing, you need to use the Traditional Chinese words to change the English words in your Simplified Chinese Windows system), you will get a dll can work fine in your language of Windows system, but if the dll file use in the same language of Windows system(like I make of Simplified Chinese word dll use in your Simplified Chinese Windows system), then it will be issue.

So that’s very strange, isn’t it?

Let me use the Chinese to explain it clearly(sorry for my poor English):

我当然知道这个档案的内容是简体字，我的意思是，如果我使用简体字在我的繁体Windows系统去编译的话，可以在我的繁体系统下的游戏环境运作正常（这也就是我附件放上这个DLL档案的原因，我想让你测试在你的简体Windows下是否也能正常）但是如果我更换为繁体字去编译的话，即便所有步骤都一样，结果就是不能在游戏里面正常运作，它只会出现一次，然后后面就不运作了。

所以我担心，如果我使用了这个重新编译的DLL档案在我的模组中，我怕可能只有在繁体Windows环境下才会正常，结果经过你的测试以后，证明我的假设是正确的，这样编译出来的档案只能使用在繁体系统环境下。

让我纳闷的是，这么简单的一个语言置换，怎么就弄了半天还是解决不了？VB我都用过，从来没有出现这种问题，怎么换了个VC++就变成如此了？

NeXoSE

@JONG:

Yes, it’s so weird. Debug like this is exhusting.

But there is something also weird is, after I compile with Unicoded [c]zone.rc[/c], when I open up the resulting DLL with ResHacker, it still display normally – I was hoping to see the miscode.

I think it’s either because ResHacker did code convert automatically when I open the file so I can read it, Or it’s still ANSI.

Could be a fail guess though.

I have no idea what’s going on here

adoxa

@NeXoSe: dllimport means this function will be found in another DLL; dllexport means make this function available to others.

I tried the above DLL on my English system and that worked fine. Have you tried changing system (or maybe just using a tradelane) and seeing if that message shows up, and then try the zone again? (If you’re using Console, just do [c]s .[/c].) If that works, then perhaps Zone still thinks a message is displayed and so does not display another one until something else resets it. Still, I don’t know how that would occur. If it doesn’t work, I guess I could add some log messages to the spew (unless you want to delve into low-level debugging, as well…).

NeXoSE

adoxa wrote:
@NeXoSe: dllimport means this function will be found in another DLL; dllexport means make this function available to others.

Sorry for delay.

I tested again using above DLL, and I can conform that:

1, When enter a new field, the Entering message will show up, but no Leaving message.
2, Re-enter that same field, the Entering message will not show up.
3, Enter another field, the Entering message for the new entered field show up, but again, I leave without the Leaving message.
4, I also tried the Jumpgate (Cause map reloading?), same thing happens.

Here is the record:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/f3yPkogmt5w
Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3yPkogmt5w&feature=youtu.be
(Sorry, litte blurring, my camera not forced, and I failed notice that…)
(And I also had to test my plugin at same time to save some time…So …)

BTW: Then, why I change [c]dllimport[/c] to [c]dllexport[/c] and the DLL still working as I (seems) reversed the purpose completely? OK, I think it’s not good for waste your time and energy to answer my newbie question, I better just Google it myself to fill the empty hold of my knowledge.

Thank you!

adoxa

I’ve attached a new [c]Zone.cpp[/c] that logs (to [c]EXE\zone.log[/c]) when you enter/leave a zone - that should at least tell if it’s a detection issue or just the display.

Regarding dllimport/export, I’m a little unsure myself. I have another project that just uses dllexport and it imports fine, too.