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Re: Micromanagement Tools (was Fledgling Admirals 2: EoG Comments) Sun, 11 July 2010 04:44 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Captain Maim wrote on Fri, 09 July 2010 02:42


Mapping the messages shouldn't be hard, it'll probably be a little time consuming but that shouldn't matter much. Take an M file with every sort of message at once. And then tweak one of the messages until you learn what each value does, when you find the one that sets the message template, you write down all known values for it and what they are as you read them from the file. And which ones have arguments on them. To learn the arguments you just tweak them and note the changes. Write all this down in list or table or something and you can refer to it later when programming. I always used offsets from the block markers as my means of mapping.



Here's a table of the message format strings and expected argument counts, straight from the executable:
http://orthanc.fixme.fi/stars/stars-msg.txt

The argument count doesn't include the extra arg which is the target of the Goto button.



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