Hiya , nothing to do with compilation this time hehe

Everything seems to be running well and I verified I was able to mod by doing something simple, i.e you know the laptop? well I altered the A.I.M link on the laptop, you know the one that is just above or below IMP, I changed AIM for Fireflys Crazy MERC House. It worked silly I know but I wanted to see the max amount of characters it would take onscreen, the characters seem to be there but some are chopped off because of the length of the graphic and Im just curious if it would be possible to extend that graphic a little more to fit the text on?

Im looking in Aim.c , I see lots of things like #Define Flowers.... 44 etc, just wandering where the dimensions are kept for the part of the laptop I altered.

I am going to play the game for a bit now Its just been a good day for me getting things working so I kept going hehe.

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Ok thanks yeah I was mucking around and ended up having stuff half way off screen lol, there was a point though so I see what the purpose of certain code is.

Files Ive been messing about with

Aim.c
Laptop.c
Laptop.h
Aimlinks.c

I also noticed that STI files get loaded so Im thinking those are the physical images in a custom format(Just guess though .......actually dow! See you mention that in your post )

Im more or less just messing about with things though so I will check out that LAPTOP.slf

I got that file in my installed JA 2 gold i.e c:\progs\ja2ggold\laptop.slf

It seems to be encrypted or something, do we have access to the slf files source or is it a case of hacking them with a hex editor and the like?

At the bottom I notice SLI files listed in the file Still not sure about how I could manipulate them. (I didnt think I would be able or even allowed to open the game sli files, thats what I actually thought the source was initially , source so you could mess with all but I can see why they wouldnt do it that way . )

edit: there are some slf viewers on the web actually (Just hope using those aint a prob, not even sure if Im barking up the wrong tree but the whole reason Im doing this is just to figure stuff out Its not often with an actual commercial app or game that I can say is off high standard usability wise has source, the too never go together lol (Talking commercial apps only here btw as some of the user made stuff is superb )

edit: Ok looks like Its ButtonsForLaptop.sli Im interested in for the previous thing I was trying to do but that file contains like the grey bottons with the world icon and each of these buttons are all in this one file so Im thinking that means I am limited to how much text I can fit on a button by the size of the image (and variable, that would be adjustable though) . I suppose I could load my own image maybe but then Im guessing that would cause problems because the whole system is relying on this sti format to place images.

Ok I am going to try the resolution thing BTW I did come across 2 variables one defined as 640 and the other 480 so Im hoping Im on the right track

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Cheers ) Thats me for tonight but I will give it a shot tommorow. (Interesting stuff:))

edit : lol couldnt help but make an attempt at what you said so here it is and Im not sure if Ive chosen the best place or way to immplement this but in the file local.c heres the old code then my addition and it does seem to make everything a higher rez

/*original code #define SCREEN_WIDTH 640
#define SCREEN_HEIGHT 480
#define PIXEL_DEPTH 16

//I did try to do wide screen rez at 1680*1050 but wouldnt have it, Im also going to try changing //pixel depth 2 32 not sure if that will work
#define SCREEN_WIDTH 1024
#define SCREEN_HEIGHT 768
#define PIXEL_DEPTH 16

edit: actually its the pixel depth at 32 thats causing the crashes not the resolutions Im putting in

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