[Blade]

DCoder, have you looked into how the game code progresses through using the IsSpotlight tag and how it knows to look at the various spotlight controls? I must say that I'm out in the deep end trying to make sense of the assembly coding and think some idea of how the game actually pulls all the info it needs together would be useful in enabling me to be more productive when analysing the exe.

[DCoder]

Yes, I have looked at the code a lot, and I have only one idea: I will make a simple program that reads parameters from a file, disassemble it, and see what code I get. Besides, it's almost implossible to set breakpoints on YR exe, since it's a full screen application and it doesn't minimize properly.
I did post about this at my local computing forum, I think I can get some help there.

[DJBREIT]

You may want to make the program a little flexible so you can try this on other codes. Just a suggestion

[Blade]

You can run YR in a window IIRC, DeeZire put a list of all the command line arguments for the exe file some time ago and they are probably in the editing enyclopedia. Might be useful for trying to follow code execution. Without being able to do this is some way it is going to be very difficult to work out how to hack anything useful into the exe.

[DJBREIT]

Any progress?

[DCoder]

Not really I don't have a slightest idea how the code proceeds over those controls. But SaberHawk pointed me to a .exe to .c translator ( boomerang.sourceforge.net - be warned, I've been running it for like 4 hours and it still hasn't finished translating ). I am hoping it creates something useable, cause I don't really have other ideas - spending 10 or 15 minutes disassembling the executable after each internal error just takes too much patience. It would be very interesting to hear Olaf's comments on this, I'll post at his forum.

Edit: bah, boomerang crashed after 8 hours of work... All it left is a 163 kb txt file with a structured plan of what function calls what, unfinished most probably. I thought my 1700+ XP would be enough for the task :| Damn it.

[XTF]

I think this will again result in nothing (unfortunately).
It's quite likely that much more than a simple change is required to (completely) enable the functionality you want.

[Banshee]

DCoder... this part of the code might be a declaration of an atribute of a class, not including its real implementation. I'm not sure as I'm no expert on assembly, so I dont understand some of the code above. A long time ago, I tried to use a sort of decompiler like boomerang to open the game.exe from TS 2.03 and I could see that the part that includes all the class properties are just the way the compiler used to implement classes.

[shawk]

This is going to be fun. When I go back to school in September, I get access to a linux super-cluster that I built last year. I'm the one solely in charge with it and it'll be trying to decompile the YR source code.

[Banshee]

When I tried... the operation sorta failed in the middle..... this was one of the attempts... in the other, I just got junk... I dont know if I still have the file here... I'll take a look...