I think you misunderstood. Right now we already have a bot relaying messages from the server to a ?chat channel. What I'd like to be able to do is get rid of the bot entirely and just have the server/fake player send messages to the channel. So I'm asking if this is even possible?
Dr Brain - Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:07 pm
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It's possible. You'd have to create a module to log a player into the billing server, and send ?chat=...
I don't know how much trouble that will be, though.
Cheese - Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:25 pm
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ive been meaning to do an asss chat mod, ill look into it...
Initrd.gz - Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:25 pm
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For fakes "speaking":
A ) You can use chat->SendAnyMessage
B ) You can add "Fake>" to the beginning of a message and send it like any other, though it would be green
Look at the Color module for how to "spoof" the color of chat->SendAnyMessage to make it look like a public/team/priv. message
Dr Brain - Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:33 pm
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None of that will help with speaking on a ?chat channel.
Cheese - Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:50 am
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because it only sends to those inside the zone
yeah, you could fake an entire chat session, but it wouldnt do anything for those in other zones...
Cheese - Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:17 am
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in chat.c, it uses
Code: Show/Hide local void v_send_msg(LinkedList *set, char type, char sound, Player *from, const char *str, va_list ap) { int size; char _buf[256]; const char *ctype = get_chat_type(type); struct ChatPacket *cp = (struct ChatPacket*)_buf; size = vsnprintf(cp->text, 250, str, ap) + 6; if (type == MSG_MODCHAT) type = MSG_SYSOPWARNING; cp->pktype = S2C_CHAT; cp->type = type; cp->sound = sound; cp->pid = from ? from->pid : -1; if (net) net->SendToSet(set, (byte*)cp, size, NET_RELIABLE); if (chatnet && ctype) { if (from) chatnet->SendToSet(set, "MSG:%s:%s:%s", ctype, from->name, cp->text); else chatnet->SendToSet(set, "MSG:%s:%s", ctype, cp->text); } } |
i notice it uses
Code: Show/Hide struct ChatPacket *cp = (struct ChatPacket*)_buf; |
which is basically inline structure declaration.
why does this work?
i tried throwing this into my code, but it died with a "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type" error every time i tried to do cp->pktype = S2C_CHAT; or something...
--edit--
i got this to compile without error by tweaking the code.
however, the curent ChatPacket struct expects char text[0], which i know wants the pointer to a char array...
how do i pass char buf[256] to cp.text without getting an incompatible types error?
Dr Brain - Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:43 am
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It works because it doesn't do what you think it's doing. It declares the chat packet as pointing to the buffer, it doesn't create a new chat packet. It's not an inline structure declaration.
Samapico - Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:10 am
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Yeah, it just typecasts _buf (a char*) to a Chatpacket*
Cheese - Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:54 am
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thats what i figured, but how do i pass char buf[256] to cp.text (buf[0]) without getting an incompatible types error?
im not so great at this if you cant tell
Dr Brain - Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:48 pm
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cp->text (not cp.text) already occupies some of the same memory as the buffer. Assigning the buffer to it is not what you want, since the packet IS the buffer. If you're looking to better understand it, I'd suggest you brush up on pointers and arrays. Specifically the part where they talk about the similarities between the two.
Samapico - Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:00 pm
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strcpy?
Cheese - Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:14 pm
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so i connected this to a command
Code: Show/Hide local void aCmd(const char *params, const char *params2, Player *p, const Target *target) { chat->SendMessage(p,"net cmd sending..."); //cpp=&cp; char buf[256]; struct ChatPacket *cpp=(struct ChatPacket*)buf; int size; //cpp->text=buf; size=snprintf(cpp->text,250,"%s","weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee")+6; cpp->pktype=S2C_CHAT; cpp->type=MSG_PUB;//79;//type; cpp->sound=0;//sound; cpp->pid=p->pid;//-1;//from ? from->pid : -1; //net->SendToSet(set,(byte*)cp,size,NET_RELIABLE); //void (*SendToOne)(Player *p, byte *data, int length, int flags); net->SendToOne(p,(byte*)cpp,size,NET_RELIABLE); chat->SendMessage(p,"net cmd sent"); return; } |
compiled fine, but the zone crashes somewhere between 'sending' and 'sent'...
i have no idea why
after this works, ill figure out how to log a fake player into the biller.
Dr Brain - Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:54 pm
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Run it in a debugger (gdb if you're running on linux). If you don't know how to use a debugger, then it's time to learn. You'll never regret any amount of time spent learning to use your debugger. It's easily your most powerful programming tool.
Oh, if you do try to log fake players into a biller, make sure you don't test it on SSC while you're developing. Try it on something like subbill or catid's biller.
Cheese - Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:47 pm
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good thing i dont own a ssc connected zone then, right? =D
never used a debugger, and how would i debug a dll? :S
i installed one, but i have no idea how to use it...
unrelated: why does
chat->SendMessage(p,"| %-15c | %-80c |","string","string");
output wierd chars instead?
Dr Brain - Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:56 pm
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