I don't see the problem. Only one of those two strings is a match. Have you tried patching it yet? It's possible that it won't work, but there can be no harm in trying.

Quote:What did you mean when u said (Edit: Now I see why mental assembly isn't on the curriculum. I've expanded the patch by a byte to remove the redundant PUSH.)

I missed out a byte at the end of my first proposed patch, resulting in an extra PUSH being executed and the stack getting corrupted. I fixed this a couple of hours later, and left the edit as proof.

The 1.0a patch is all over the web. I'll get to downloading and installing.

Admiral

I'm not surprised that other dialogs are affected: we've patched the code responsible for centring a box on screen, not specifically the chat box. Unfortunately, isolating one particular instance of the class will prove to be a pain.

Worse still, it seems that the dialog boxes and panels are rendered in a loop according to some 'UI feature' list. This means that patching out the call that draws the box will be far more difficult.

I thought that simply setting the coordinates to push the box off the screen would do the trick, but I guess this causes a rendering function to fail somewhere down the line, and consequently, the game becomes unresponsive. If you'd prefer, you could set the width and height of the dialog (as per the function prototype I gave) to 1, reducing the dialog's panel to a single pixel (any smaller and we get a divide-by-zero). This isn't great, though, as the text and input-box are still drawn as usual. I doubt it would take much effort to minimise these features in screen space, but entirely removing the dialog would require a different approach.

In realistic terms, this is a dead-end. I'm sure that a few more hours probing would yield some results, but this seems like a hell of a lot of work to rid the user of an annoyingly-placed input box. Is there some bigger picture I'm missing, or do you really go in for aesthetics? [wink]

Admiral

Quote:Original post by sewar711
You see where it says ws_VISIBLE (above) Can this be changed to INVISIBLE.

It certainly could, but that won't do you much good as the enitre game would disappear [razz].
The window being described is a Windows window. There is only one such window being used in the game, and it takes up the whole screen. The in-game dialogs are far less tangible in nature, as they are defined by big classes whose definitions we don't have access to.

Just for the record, do you want the chat box to remain fully-functional, but invisble? Or do you want to disable part of it?

Admiral

Quote:Original post by Ralph Trickey
Move it off the screen by changing the coordinates.
Set the height and width to make it one pixel by one pixel dialog box.

Nice try, but I covered both of these in my last post. Pushing it off the screen (even a little bit) causes the game to hang. I presume that a render call fails and the game state becomes undefined.
Setting the box size to a pixel works as far as the panel background is concerned, but you still see the text and the input box.

Admiral