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Henbane · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:46 am Post subject: Bot making?

Can I make a bot in Microsoft Visual Basic? Or do I need C++ or java?

50% Packetloss · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:06 am Post subject:

Mervbot is C++
TWcore is Java

Those are the 2 main open source bots. I believe Redstar has a bot made with VB

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:30 am Post subject:

MERV started off in VB.
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D1st0rt · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:

You should be able to write it in Managed C++, depending on what computer you want to run it from. You might need to recompile the core though in that case.
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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

If you are just writing DLL's, you should be able to use any language/compiler that can produce a DLL with the appropriate interface.
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D1st0rt · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:41 pm Post subject:

I think one of the calls MERV accesses returns one of its internal template classes though

50% Packetloss · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

yep, playerlist, flaglist, bricklist and some of the things that you send to the core are all of catid's _linkedlist template

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

There's nothing magic about classes or templates. It's just function calls, parameters, return values, and stack cleanup. You can mimic the interface with any reasonable language; maybe not VB.

Pests · Novice Joined: Feb 24 2003 Posts: 84 Offline

Yes, Redstar has a VB bot.

D1st0rt · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:48 am Post subject:

ew, icky VB

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:33 am Post subject:

I think Ekted was referring to making MERVBot plugins, not bots. As I said before, MERV started in VB. (It is gross though, I would never write something serious in VB.)