PatchMW2NewsTicker.cpp

// ==========================================================
// IW4M project
//
// Component: clientdll
// Sub-component: steam_api
// Purpose: support code for the main menu news ticker
//
// Initial author: NTAuthority
// Started: 2012-04-19
// ==========================================================

#include "StdInc.h"

#define CURL_STATICLIB
#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <curl/types.h>
#include <curl/easy.h>

CallHook newsTickerGetTextHook;
DWORD newsTickerGetTextHookLoc = 0x6388C1;
size_t AuthDataReceived(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *data);

char* Auth_GetUsername();
char ticker[8192];


const char* NewsTicker_GetText(const char* garbage)
{
        if (!ticker[0])
        {
                char buf[8192] = {0};

                curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
                CURL* curl = curl_easy_init();

                curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://yoursite.com/pathtoyourfile/news.txt" );
                curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, AuthDataReceived);
                curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void*)&buf);
                curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "IW4M");
                curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);

                CURLcode code = curl_easy_perform(curl);

                curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
                curl_global_cleanup();

                if( code == CURLE_OK )
                    strcpy(ticker, va("%s", buf));
                else
                    strcpy(ticker, va("^1Failed to retrieve news! Error: %s", code));
        }
        return ticker;
}

void PatchMW2_NewsTicker()
{
        // hook for getting the news ticker string
        *(WORD*)0x6388BB = 0x9090; // skip the "if (item->text[0] == '@')" localize check

        // replace the localize function
        newsTickerGetTextHook.initialize(newsTickerGetTextHookLoc, NewsTicker_GetText);
        newsTickerGetTextHook.installHook();

        // make newsfeed (ticker) menu items not cut off based on safe area
        memset((void*)0x63892D, 0x90, 5);
}