Need help creating a dialogue

[Ivellos]

Hello everyone. Can someone help me with something? I'm trying to create a dialogue for a new mod, and I keep getting an error.

What does this error "ERROR: illegal 6-byte write (Mugluk) offset 716 of 173-byte file IVEitems/Dialog/Mugluk.d" means?

And what about the error "write out of bounds"?

Can someone check the structure of this simple dialogue? It seems correct to me, it is a very simple one.

[Ivellos]

Nevermind, the problem was solved in discord with the help of dark0dave

[Incrementis]

Hi Ivellos,

Could you please tell the solution, so that people who have the same/similar problem and look here, can also find an answer, thanks.

Edited November 3 by Incrementis
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[jastey]

The problem was in the tp2:

COMPILE ~IVEitems/Dialog/Mugluk01.d~
WRITE_ASCII DIALOG ~Mugluk01~

The WRITE_ASCII doesn't make sense here and needed to be removed.

@Ivellos I'd still be interested how the tp2 of the tutorial looked like. I am sure the WRITE_ASCII was there in another context.

 

[Ivellos]

@jastey The tp2 file of the tutorial I based on looked like this

 

Edited November 4 by Ivellos

[jastey]

Thanks!

It's what I thought; if you look at it you see that the WRITE_ASCII is below the copying of the cre file, not the compilation of the d-file. It assignes the dlg to the quest character, so the cre actually talks with this dialogue.

[Ivellos]

@Incrementis The problem was that in my .tp2 file, the line "WRITE_ASCII DIALOG" was not below the respective .cre file. So erasing that line or placing it below the command to copy the .cre file made it install correctly.

[Ivellos]

@jastey Exactly! So that is what the "write out of bounds" error means. I was really confused by it.

[argent77]

@Ivellos It is good style to specify the max. size (i.e. field size) of the string you want to write. Otherwise you risk out-of-bounds writes or, even more difficult to troubleshoot, a partially overwritten target string if the source string is shorter than 8 characters.

Example:

WRITE_ASCII DIALOG ~IZMendak~ #8

 

[Ivellos]

Thanks for the tip @argent77! I read that later in the "A course on WEIDU", which I did not finish yet. I am still very much new to this, learning how WEIDU works and stuff. Glad to see a lot of people trying to help new modders!

Edited November 4 by Ivellos

[szef]

On 11/4/2024 at 9:51 PM, argent77 said:

@Ivellos It is good style to specify the max. size (i.e. field size) of the string you want to write.

Always? Even if my new .cre file does not have a typed dialog field, but is to be entered by weidu?

I know that if I want to overwrite some script name: WRITE_ASCII DEATHVAR then must give: #32 ? But about the DIALOG?

Edited November 15 by szef

[argent77]

It's ultimatively your decision. But without it you'll always run the risk of introducing subtle bugs or even breaking your mod if you decide to update your code or resources at a later date.