Hello all, I have been able to detect text EUD's for this is patch, however on one word I am unable detect properly and was wondering if I could maybe get some assistance.

The word is NOW On (Before you say anything about me having to also include the name (or a name) like <from Me:NOW On I know this to be true, just ignore this and just work with the word "NOW On" by it's alone)

I have the offset that holds this text, it's 16 bytes (including the space) which means the n (lower case) is carried over to the next offset in the last byte (would be 6E 00 00 00 but SC read bytes backwards so it's 00 00 00 6E) I know for each new 4 bytes you go to the next player.

So it looks like this:

Offset:1D 4E 4F 08 57 20 07 4F
Offset:6E 00 00 00

But again remember SC read bytes backwards so it must be inputted like:

Offset:08 4F 4E 1D 4F 07 20 57
Offset:00 00 00 6E

08 4F 4E 1D = 139415069 (Decimal)
4F 07 20 57 = 1325867095 (Decimal)
00 00 00 6E = 110 (Decimal)

So I have for my trigger:

Condition:
Deaths(P11, Exactly, 139415069, 15586);
Deaths(P12, Exactly, 1325867095, 15586);
Deaths(P1, Exactly, 110, 15587); (It must go back to Player1 and up the Unit ID by 1)

Action:
DisplayText("All Systems Go", 4);

However this isn't working, and I've been able to get it to work for other words so what is problem? (Again ignore the name not being in text)

Sorry for bad English

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 17 2008, 9:25 am by bugmenot.

2 of your characters don't even register on firefox for me. Maybe that's why.

1. The word "NOW On" is invalid.
2. Starcraft does not read bytes backwards.

No, it doesn't look like that.

Those are supposedly color tags. Afaik those have to be included.

No, it just uses color codes.Yes it does, at least on windows. .
The last 2 bytes will not necessarily be 0, they can contain remnants of older strings.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Dec 18 2008, 2:58 pm by Doodan. Reason: removed mild flame

Even though it is assumed, you might tell us that you want to detect hacks. Also, the specific hack may be useful.

This would be an awesome detection for Zynastor's map hack, since it displays text at the start

yes those are for sc color codes, and yes sc read bytes backwards.

yes the bytes after 6E are 00 00 00

forget what it is applied to, none of the replies have been able to assist me with the problem.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 18 2008, 2:56 am by bugmenot.

So a hack is used to display a message? It's an invalid message unless you are displaying it using triggers, in which case I find this useless.

That's forwards in little endian.

I'm fairly certain this is your problem. When the "now on" message is placed in the memory area, it doesn't set the whole string to nulls then place the string in, it places the string with a trailing null, and will not effect anything after its length. So if you have never received any text in the chat area longer then the string you are looking for then yes, it will be 00 00 00 after the 6E, other then that no it might be something else (not a very high chance in my opinion). Here is a small example

Have you tried to open up artmoney and look at the specific string you're reading?

The address you're using, 0x640DD0, is two bytes after the beginning of a string. Make sure you pay attention to the "byte offset" things that EUD calculators have. It is also not the first string on the screen, so you would have to say Now On, or whatever