Special Characters[5165]

[†he Knight]

Hello everybody!
Im Looking for help....
You know , on all 5165 Sources you cant use special characters..(§, †... etc)
Can somebody help me about this ... Many ppl are looking for that

Thanks


If you have msn add me at

[masternek]

my friend Fang (who is banned but saw this and wanted to help you) says that it's in the character creation file and to look for where it checks to see if it's a valid name.

also, here is his email: ill PM you his email.

[.Beatz]

Go to GameClient.cs and go to the bottom of that cs file. You will see something like

public bool ValidName(string Name)
{
            if (Name.IndexOfAny(new char[15] { ' ', '~', '[', ']', '#', '*', '\\', '/', '<', '>', ':', '"', '|', '?', '='}) > -1) //this is all windows folder invalids characters
            {
                return false;
            }
            else
            {
                return true;
            }
        }

Thats where you change the special characters that are not allowed

[Arcо]

        public bool ValidName(string name)
        {
            foreach (char ch in name)
            {
                byte c = Convert.ToByte(ch);
                if (!
                    ((c >= 48 && c <= 57) || 
                    (c >= 65 && c <= 90) || 
                    (c >= 97 && c <= 122))
                    )
                    return false;
            }
            return true;
        }

[kinshi88]

Can use a regular expression.

public bool ValidName(string Name) 
{
    return !new Regex("[^a-zA-Z0-9]").IsMatch(Name);
}

[2087]

None of your codes worked.. still cant create a char with special characters

at the /accounts form it doesnt show the special characters.... but in the \Character folder it does...

[Arcо]

Originally Posted by 2087

None of your codes worked.. still cant create a char with special characters

at the /accounts form it doesnt show the special characters.... but in the \Character folder it does...

Oh he wants it so you CAN?
I gave him a code so you can't do it.

[2087]

Ye, i noticed that you CAN'T do it with the codes of you

But i'd like to be able to do it
Anyhows possible? o.o

[Arcо]

Get rid of the validname check in CharacterMaking.cs

[killersub]

Originally Posted by 2087

Ye, i noticed that you CAN'T do it with the codes of you

But i'd like to be able to do it
Anyhows possible? o.o

do wat matty said...go to gameclient.cs

find:

public bool ValidName(string Name)

and replace ur whole void with mine LOL easiest thing u can do...(I just commented mine wasnt anything hard)

/*public bool ValidName(string Name)
        {
            if (Name.IndexOfAny(new char[15] { ' ', '~', '[', ']', '#', '*', '\\', '/', '<', '>', ':', '"', '|', '?', '='}) > -1) //this is all windows folder invalids characters
            {
                return false;
            }
            else
            {
                return true;
            }
        }*/

and then do what .Arco said above me.

not hard ^_^.

[Korvacs]

public bool ValidName(string Name)

Right click on valid name and click "Find All References", you will be given a list of all places where that method is used. Then double click each place on the list to be taken to it and remove it.

[2087]

Still don't work for me o.o

I'm getting error on that line

                FileStream FS = new FileStream(@"C:\OldCODB\Users\Characters\" + C.Name + ".chr", FileMode.Open);

... maybe it can't read the special character?

[Arcо]

That's exactly WHY that check is needed.

[2087]

Ahh i see!
So am i right that it doenst work at all ? :P

[Korvacs]

What exception do you receive from it?

If its ArgumentException, then its because of invalid characters in the path.