Alternatives to method detouring?

[tony56a1 79]

Hey,

has anyone tried this library out for C:S mods yet? Seems kind of interesting, since it seems to allow patching of existing methods, rather than detouring the entire method.

[boformer 3,169]

Looks interesting. I wonder if it is flexible and fast enough.

[tony56a1 79]

Just tried it out to override the bulldozer tool on a mod I had. Seemed to work alright ( didn't notice any major performance slowdowns, original method was correctly pre-empted, etc ). Would be interesting to see if the patching priority thing with multiple conflicting mods working in real life though, since that's the biggest advantage I can see here vs detouring.

[tony56a1 79]

Not necessarily, if you take a look at the documentation for the library, the new execution flow is:

1. All prefix methods that are patched in, until one of the patches decides to end execution
2. The original method, if one of the prefix methods didn't decide to end execution
3. All postfix methods, regardless of whether or not execution of the prefix/original methods was altered.

At the same time, you can also declare what ordering you'd like for the patches, so if you want to go first, you can just mark your own patch as a high priority patch/executes before a certain patch, and preempt other mod patches.

I haven't tried that yet, but having just described that, I can see some issues with this arrangement
( for example, one mod overriding rendering with a prefix, and ending execution of the remaining patches from other mods by returning false. )