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Old October 13th, 2005, 10:27 PM
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Default Re: macro software

There are external applications that act as 'helpers' for SEIV, but this is limited strictly to the realms of switching between mods and multiplayer automation. As Fyron said, there is no macro capability in SEIV.

The only way I can think of to do basic automation outside of Ministers and such would be a program that captures the user input messages from the Windows and/or DirectX APIs, and records specific sequences to be played back later. But this would require quite a bit of effort to create, since you would need to maintain a state of where the game is (any windows open? which ones? which system is displayed? what sector is selected? what is in the sector list? etc.), and most likely would require a way to read the information in the *.gam files. And that last bit would be opening up a huge ability to cheat.

What exactly are you wanting this external application to do?
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