Cheat Engine

[faizangmc]

Hello i have made a trainer (like an editor) for this game and added edit boxes in it so that users can edit the values of that address according to their will. (see screenshot)
The trainer works like. type in a value and press the hotkey and value changes to what is entered in the edit boxes.

My trainer is wrking flawless. I load the player profile screen in game (see screenshot). Enter any value in any of the boxes like in nationality i enter 45 and presss the hotkey. The player automatically becomes indian (code for natioanlity of india, originally he was english = 44)

My question is how do i list the already present values in the edit boxes?
When i load the player profile nothing shows in edit boxes. But if i enter something, press hotkey, it works. I want that as soon as player profile is loaded the edit boxes should show the values already present. (It shows in cheat engine table ofcourse)

I cant double post so EDIT : see the 1st screen shot.
After reading some tuts on lua in forum, i got to know about readInteger and writeInteger function. These can be used to display the already present value. Also there is some timer comand and refresh command.
What are all these and how to use this in script autogenerated by cheatengine for this trainer.
I have attached the script too in screen. Side by side see the red boxes. This is what i did to make the trainer.

What i need to put in the generated script and where so that it reads the values from the game already present in edit boxes??
Please help.

[mgr.inz.Player]

You can add a timer. Post your current CT file. I will post additional Lua code.

[faizangmc]

Hello, thanx for replying.
I have attached 3 CT tables.

One is the autogenerated lua script from the pointer addresses in my table.
Another is the pointer table from which i clicked on file genrate lua script

The 3rd one is a manually written code after i read some more stuff and tutorials about lua scripting.

Now the autogenerate one works flawless, except not showing the edit boxes values.

The manually written one has one problem. that it writes the correct address but in nationality and bowling type column it always writes the same value even if type anything different (evident by same changes in the game even for different inputs)

I read somewhere that the autogenerated one with hotkeys will also freeze the value so finance and all wont increase or decrease. While no such thing in manually written one as there is only integer write command. So better is for me is that the manual should work like the autogenerated one + with edit boxes value shown.

Can you tell me what i should write for both? and why the manually written trainer is always writing the same value. (i think the button and text box are not getting integrated)

Also, i forgot to save the table as CT first time (directly saved as exe) but i have given a replica with 3 options.

I made the manuall lua script after reading from this post of DARK_BYTE
Let's just start from the beginning
start ce
go to table->create form
Go to the name property of the created form and change it to MyForm
Add 3 buttons and editboxes
Change the name property of the buttons to bt1, bt2, and bt3
change the name property of the editboxes to edt1, edt2, edt3

Optional: Change the caption of the buttons to what you want them to be and clear the text properties of the editboxes

click bt1, go to events, click twice on the ... button, make the function look like:

[Dark Byte]

Just remember that it can be extremely annoying to the user when the edit boxes automatically get filled with the current value. That would make the hotkeys useless

[mgr.inz.Player]

I was thinking about:
- timer, so it fill empty editboxes. When all editboxes are filled, it disables itself.
- and one extra "refresh" button.

[faizangmc]

[Dark Byte]

mgr.inz.player is the best solution (a one time run with optional forced rerun)

wincontrol.focused returns true if the editbox has keyboard focus.
But if you have multiple editboxes and use a continuesly running timer, as soon as you'd switch to another field(the current edit becomes unfocused), it'd get updated again, removing your edit.
You could combine it with a keypress event to remember which fields have had user interaction to stop the update that way

[faizangmc]

[mgr.inz.Player]

faizangmc, I will post that additional Lua code, wait.
(Now, I'm in the middle of something else).


Try

[faizangmc]

[mgr.inz.Player]

because you have those as
ebt1 (form designer)
edt1 (lua script)

try

[faizangmc]

[faizangmc]

ok. im back here.

My full script :

[mgr.inz.Player]

Really, better attach CT file. It will be much simpler to debug.
(CT where you have forms, lua script)

[faizangmc]

the CT file :


In windows 7 if you start the taskmanager. There are many tabs
First one application, 2nd one processes.
So after editor close. the exe goes away form applications list. but persists in processes lists.