Cheat Engine

[DJK]

Hey

I want to change a label text when I press a button. I tried the following:

function CEButton2Click(sender)
CELabel2:SetText("text")
end

But this does not work

[Dark Byte]

this only works if you have a class wrapper and wrapped the CELabel2 into a class object of the same name

usually you just do: control_setCaption(CELabel2, "text")

[DJK]

Hmm its not working atm

1. Does it need to be after :
"--TRAINERGENERATORSTOP--"
It seems to place it there automatically so I presume it has and the first part is a sort of "OnCreate" event ? (Im used to programming delphi, never programmed lua before ...)

2. Is ther any "preview" button that compiles and shows me the trainer without having to manually save and runing the "cetrainer" manually outside the editing CE currently open?

3. The button is not in the same panel as the label but it is on the same form ... so I'm guessing that should be allright ?

My code:

[Dark Byte]

if it's a label on a designed form then the name of the label is formname_labelname

so CETrainer_CELabel2

[DJK]

Doesn't work

My new block:
function CEButton2Click(sender)
control_setCaption(CETrainer_CELabel2, "text")
end

After another look, nothing works ... its like the code doesn't run on the onclick of the butto nevent ? I tried with just a plain "showmessage" and that doesn't work either ?

To summerize, I got the form "CETrainer", in there a Groupbox, in there a panel and on that panel the label. (if that changes anything)

[Dark Byte]

have you closed the designer (thats the bar with the components you can select from) when clicking the button?
Events do not get handled as long as the designer mode is active

and of course, have you assigned CEButton2Click to the onClick event handler of the button ?

(also, it's showMessage)

[DJK]

Hey

With some fiddling I got some stuff to work, I ran into a next probably smaller problem though....

When in design mode I can easily add multilines to a label. However when using the line:

[Dark Byte]

disable autosize on the label or put the label in a panel of a fixed width with no borderstyle and set align to alClient. When you then use setCaption it should be limited to the given height and width and use multilines when needed

[DJK]

Hey

Well I worked around it with just using two labels Anyway I have a few more questions.

1. How can I use a checkbox to freeze a value ?
2. How can I use a edit box to let me "choose any value' ?

Basically I have 3 elements for every cheat on my form.
checkbox - editbox - button

When I use the checkbox it should freeze or unfreeze the current value.
Changing the editbox doesn't do anything on itself, however
Pressing the button (or hotkey) should change the value to whatever the edit box says (number)


3. How would I read a txt file in a memo using lua ? (in delphi its easy like pie with something like "memo1.lines := loadfromfile('c:\myfile');"
But im sure in lua its a tad different

I'm guessing this is going to be my last questions, can't think of a lot I will still need if I can get these 3 working

Thanks for all the help!

[Dark Byte]

1:
You place a checkbox and add a onChange event handler. In there you get the state of the checkbox, and then activate or disable the specific cheat (memoryrecord_freeze / memoryrecord_unfreeze)

And then update the gui accordingly. E.g setting the color to red, or flash, or play a sound, etc...

2:
the TCheat component has a haseditbox field that the automated scriptgenerator looks at when generating the script. If it's checked it adds some code that checks what the user has given and then call memoryrecord_setValue when triggered

alternatively, place a editbox, and after using the automated script generator edit the script where the hotkey has been handled. Or register a memoryrecord_onActivate for the cheatentry yourself and in there call memoryrecord_setValue. (only do that when before is false and currentstate is true for best results)

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