Cheat Engine

[weetabixharry]

The structure dissector is really useful, but as far as I can see it currently only supports data types that are an exact number of bytes. Is that correct, or did I miss something?

I'm currently wrestling with a game that has masses of arbitrarily sized fields, so it would be amazing to have something like the "binary" type that's available in the main address list.

In general, I'm a bit confused by differences between the main address list and the structure dissector. For example, I can easily change font color in the main address list, whereas in the structure dissector it seems easy to change the background color instead. Was there a rationale behind making them different?

[DanyDollaro]

[weetabixharry]

I'm not 100% sure what you would consider to be a fundamental variable, but I guess you mean something akin to the meaning in a C++ context.

However, I'm talking about cases where distinct pieces of information do not map to distinct C-like variables. Instead, multiple distinct pieces of information may be packed into one byte, or one 32-bit variable.

Maybe this is something you would see very little of in a modern game (because storage is abundantly available these days, and execution speed is the priority). However, it's common in embedded software. And, as far as I can see, old games.

It is true that, at a high level, these pieces of information may not map directly to a C-like variable in a struct. However, at a lower level, the principle is exactly the same (i.e. different fields of information stored in contiguous memory), except there is no particular restriction on the sizes or formats of each field.

In this context, it would be extremely useful to be able to add arbitrary-length bit-fields in the structure dissector. An array of bytes wouldn't be suitable, for example, for 2-bit or 5-bit fields.

Regarding the colors, I guess I didn't make my question clear, but to be honest this is not so important.