Today, I was just goofing around with Diablo II's internal functions, and it's so confusing to say the least... I fiddled around with it for like a few hours, and after that point I just about gave up on it.
The most beneficial part of it all was I figured out how to directly write to the
text buffer, so instead of using
SendMessage to slowly type it out character by character, I can PLOP and it'll all be there!
Unfortuantly however, it will STILL cause problems if I'm typing and I couldn't figure out how to determine if the "
Chat box" was already opened or not, if I could do that I could slightly modify it to make it a bit "safer" to.
I don't know really,
maybe I'm going about this all the wrong way. All I really want is to
emulate mouse clicks (which I can do with very little problems using
SendMessage), and type text! Which is such a hassle.
I mean the mouse emulating is simple as can be, the text I can do like three ways (using SendInput/it's predecessor keybd_event or even SendMessage), and every way has a flaw of its own, which is why I should look into SOCKETS.
I have never in my LIFE messed around with SOCKETS (networking!) though with C++, and I've never really learned DirectX or Allegro or OpenGL or GTK+ or SDL or <insert API here>. I've never even learned the
Win32 API!
I know I know, I should probably learn it because a mass majority of people are
Windows users, and I DO use Linux on occasion because it's fun to learn about new stuff (like Bash scripts!) and how other OS' work...
But without any
formal education, and a lack of books to read or forums to post on (everyone I post on is like super dead OR I get banned 'cause I finally run into somebody who's being mean and I act the same way and yeah).
There's no real "easy" internet tutorials, people can't spell worth BEANS and it drives me nuts so I have a hard time following and deciphering their text and THEN I have like
x20,000 questions! That like NOBODY can answer!
I REALLY don't know, maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm defective at learning new stuff now or always have 'cause it's taken me quite a while to just come THIS far alone. I mean, I can do
A LOT of stuff with the console...
but nothing really "visual" (GUIs FTW) and I guess that's fine in all but, I'm finally hitting that wall where I want to do some more "standard" stuff just so I can say I can and possibly make a
portfilio to show people.
Y'know, like, try and get a job out of it, 'cause it's a really fun hobby at times, although sometimes it's SUPER stressful and I just give up 'cause I can't solve problems and I get super hot headed and I can't find answers on the 'net and the few people (like 1-2 people..) I know who know how to program use
VB and they don't really know C++ that well or Network programming let alone AI programming so they're no help really. Then all they talk about is this stupid girl did this at their school or how all the girls are naked at this College and they want to go there and blah blah blah. I hate it when guys are like that, so annoying... Wow, I totally went off topic. Lol!
Anyways, I think I'm done ranting... I feel better now.
EDIT: Err! I didn't know this was posted publically in General Chat's sub-forum! LOL! Hope I don't get in trouble for swearing or anything...EDIT #2: OH! And I totally forgot, we're (myself, my sister, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's friend, and some other people) going to Barton Springs tomorrow (early), in Austin.