Esc menu without "Exportieren"; export screen mod removed

- cUI_EscMenu::BuildLines hook: the UI_ESC_EXPORT line is removed, the
  lines below move up, the window shrinks by one line, centred.
- game/ui/control.h: control vector helpers (ControlsIn, RemoveControl,
  SetControlAt, DeleteControl, ControlNamed), used by the main menu too.
- The export screen is unreachable now: charexport.cpp and
  docs/char-export.md deleted. Spielen screen redesign noted in todo.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ add_library(sacredK SHARED
     src/mods/runetrade.cpp
     src/mods/teleportpotion.cpp
     src/mods/guards.cpp
-    src/mods/charexport.cpp
     src/mods/options.cpp
     src/mods/lootfilter.cpp
     src/mods/userfolders.cpp

docs/char-export.md

@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-# Character export screen (`src/mods/charexport.cpp`)
-
-Request (2026-10-18): the export screen (Esc menu "Exportieren") was not
-adapted to widescreen (layout and clicks shifted), slots could not be
-cleared or overwritten; the screen and the save game window need black
-beside the background picture.
-
-## Layout
-
-See `hud.md`, "Full-screen windows": the 3D scene was stretched across the
-wide viewport; the window now draws with a viewport on the centred frame.
-
-## cUI_Character
-
-One window for the main menu's character selection / import and the export
-screen (vtable 0x894fa8, render vf44 0x70f160, events vf10 0x70e860).
-
-| Field | Meaning |
-|---|---|
-| +0x390 | mode: 4 selection, 5 export, 6 overwrite confirmation (7 import) |
-| +0x394 | previous mode |
-| +0x1b4 | 8 slot controls; hero id at +0x2f8 (0: empty) |
-| +0x1d6 | selected slot (char, -1 none) |
-| +0x3b4 | erase button ("UI_CHAR_ERASE_TOOLTIP") |
-
-| Address | Function |
-|---|---|
-| 0x70c760 | SetMode (mode), ret 4; entering mode 5 reloads the heroes |
-| 0x70c440 | SelectSlot (char slot), ret 4; shows the erase button in modes 4 / 7 only |
-| 0x70d0f0 | ExecuteAction (action, slot, extra), ret 0xc: 6 export into slot (`Save\Hero%.2d.pax`), 9 export with confirmation if occupied |
-| 0x70e650 | right-hand button: in mode 5 action 6 (empty slot) or 9 (occupied) |
-| 0x7f01a0 | HeroSlots_DeleteHero (slot + 1), thiscall on 0x7d7c40(), ret 4 |
-
-## Overwrite
-
-Measured with a log: exporting to an occupied slot was already the game's own
-path (action 9 -> mode 6 confirmation -> action 6). It only failed because
-clicks hit the wrong place before the layout fix.
-
-## Clear
-
-The erase button is created for every mode, and its click handler (vf10)
-does not check the mode: it opens the game's confirmation
-(UI_CHAR_ERASE_CONFIRM, cUI_BusyDlg), whose answer (0x72087b) calls
-DeleteHero. The mod shows the button in export mode whenever an occupied slot
-is selected (after SetMode / SelectSlot). After DeleteHero, if the screen is
-in export mode, it enters export mode again (reloads the heroes) and clears
-the selection; otherwise the erased hero stayed until the next export.

docs/characters.md

@@ -258,6 +258,14 @@ flag +0x54 |= 0x40. The Esc menu line keeps its action (Show
 direct save while a game runs. Its text is patched at 0x6bc1f7 (id 0x41b is
 used by other windows too). Loading is from the main menu only.
 
+The Esc menu has no "Exportieren" (request 2026-10-20): `cUI_EscMenu::BuildLines`
+(0x6bb870, called by the constructor and on an event) makes five
+cUI_StaticText64 lines in the vector +0x158, 0x24 apart; each handles its own
+events. After it the UI_ESC_EXPORT line is removed and deleted, the lines
+below move up, and the window (0x108 x 0xc8) loses 0x24 of height, staying
+centred. With it the export screen (cUI_Character mode 5) is unreachable;
+its mod (charexport.cpp, an erase button for export slots) was deleted.
+
 ### Migration
 
 On first start (no `characters\` folder): after a backup in
@@ -268,7 +276,6 @@ kept, the newest file overall is the shared hero.
 ## Open
 
 - Reset a difficulty.
-- Remove the export / import UI.
 - Silent autosave every 10 minutes.
 - Quickload (row 0) does not know characters.
 - Multiplayer (see `todo.md`).

docs/todo.md

@@ -182,13 +182,10 @@ From the characters rework (`docs/characters.md`, request of 2026-10-19):
 - **Unlock difficulties by story completion.** Bronze and Silber stay open;
   difficulty d >= 2 opens when the story on d - 1 is completed. The counters
   are one byte per difficulty in cStatsManager +0x5704 (read 0x424be0) and
-  travel in the save header (+0x88..+0x98) and the hero file. Today every
+  travel in the save header (+0x88..+0x98) and the hero file. Done
-  difficulty up to the highest played one is offered (and Silber).
+  2026-10-20 (docs/characters.md).
 - **Reset a difficulty.** Remove one world from a character (the shared hero
   stays); a button / dialog entry in the load window.
-- **Remove the export / import UI.** The Esc menu's "Exportieren" and the
-  character screen's import (cUI_Character mode 5, `docs/char-export.md`):
-  characters replace exported heroes.
 - **Silent autosave every 10 minutes** (a setting later) into the
   autosave file, without the busy dialog, like the direct save
   (`SaveOnTick`) but marked as an autosave.
@@ -196,3 +193,11 @@ From the characters rework (`docs/characters.md`, request of 2026-10-19):
   current character, but the quickload event (0x116, engine +0x68 = row,
   flag 0x200) loads `GAME00.PAK`, which is not listed; make it reload the
   current character's world (or its newer autosave).
+
+## Savegames screen redesign ("Spielen")
+
+Asked 2026-10-20: redesign the load window (cUI_Savegame, the "Spielen"
+screen, characters.cpp): show a render of the selected character, use the
+space far better. The user looks for 16:9 artwork so the screens can be
+widened beyond the 1024 frame (now drawn in a centred 1024x768 viewport with
+black sides, hud.cpp FrameScope).

src/game/ui/control.h

@@ -2,13 +2,54 @@
 // cUI_Control2: flags at +0x10 (bit 0: visible; a hidden control still
 // renders but handles no events).
 
+#include <algorithm>
 #include <cstddef>
 #include <cstdint>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <vector>
 
 namespace game {
 
 constexpr size_t kControlFlagsOffset = 0x10;
 constexpr uint32_t kControlFlagVisible = 1;
+constexpr size_t kControlName = 0x30;  // char[], set by 0x732090 (e.g. "UI_LABEL_NEWGAME")
+
+inline bool ControlNamed(const void* control, const char* name) {
+    return std::strcmp(static_cast<const char*>(control) + kControlName, name) == 0;
+}
+
+// Windows keep their lines / entries in game vectors of control pointers
+// {begin, end, capacity end} at `offset` of the window.
+inline std::vector<uint8_t*> ControlsIn(void* window, size_t offset) {
+    auto* field = static_cast<uint8_t*>(window) + offset;
+    auto** begin = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(field);
+    auto** end = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(field + 4);
+    return std::vector<uint8_t*>(begin, end);
+}
+
+// Takes `control` out of the vector (the order of the others stays).
+inline void RemoveControl(void* window, size_t offset, const void* control) {
+    auto* field = static_cast<uint8_t*>(window) + offset;
+    auto** begin = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(field);
+    auto**& end = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(field + 4);
+    auto** found = std::find(begin, end, control);
+    if (found != end) {
+        std::memmove(found, found + 1, (end - found - 1) * sizeof(*found));
+        --end;
+    }
+}
+
+// Replaces the vector's entry `index`.
+inline void SetControlAt(void* window, size_t offset, size_t index, uint8_t* control) {
+    (*reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(static_cast<uint8_t*>(window) + offset))[index] = control;
+}
+
+// Destroys a control made with the game's allocator (vf00, the scalar deleting
+// destructor, e.g. cUI_StaticText64 0x754680); out of every list first.
+inline void DeleteControl(void* control) {
+    using DeleteFn = void*(__fastcall*)(void*, void*, int);
+    reinterpret_cast<DeleteFn>((*static_cast<void***>(control))[0])(control, nullptr, 1);
+}
 
 inline bool ControlShown(const void* control) {
     return (static_cast<const uint8_t*>(control)[kControlFlagsOffset] & kControlFlagVisible) != 0;

src/mods/characters.cpp

@@ -1345,6 +1345,43 @@ int __fastcall UiManager_ReceiveEvent(void* self, void* edx, uint8_t* event) {
 constexpr uint32_t kEscMenuSaveLineText = 0x006bc1f7;
 constexpr uint32_t kSavegamesText = 0x41b;
 
+// The Esc menu without "Exportieren" (request of 2026-10-20; exported heroes
+// are gone). cUI_EscMenu::BuildLines (0x6bb870, thiscall, plain ret; called
+// by the constructor 0x6bae60 and on an event, 0x6bc497) makes five
+// cUI_StaticText64 lines (constructor 0x753470) in the vector at +0x158, 0x24
+// apart (y 8 .. 0x98); each line handles its own events. The window is
+// 0x108 x 0xc8, centred (0x6bae9b). The export line goes, the lines below it
+// move up and the window loses one line's height, staying centred.
+constexpr size_t kEscMenuLines = 0x158;
+constexpr char kEscExportLine[] = "UI_ESC_EXPORT";
+constexpr int kEscLinePitch = 0x24;
+constexpr int16_t kEscMenuHeight = 0xc8;
+
+void __fastcall EscMenu_BuildLines(uint8_t* self, void* edx);
+RE_HOOK(0x006bb870, EscMenu_BuildLines);
+void __fastcall EscMenu_BuildLines(uint8_t* self, void* edx) {
+    EscMenu_BuildLines_original(self, edx);
+    bool removed = false;
+    for (uint8_t* line : game::ControlsIn(self, kEscMenuLines)) {
+        auto& rect = *reinterpret_cast<game::UiRect*>(line + game::kControlRect);
+        if (removed) {
+            rect.y -= kEscLinePitch;
+        } else if (game::ControlNamed(line, kEscExportLine)) {
+            game::RemoveControl(self, kEscMenuLines, line);
+            game::DeleteControl(line);
+            removed = true;
+        }
+    }
+    auto& window = *reinterpret_cast<game::UiRect*>(self + game::kControlRect);
+    if (removed && window.h == kEscMenuHeight) {
+        window.h -= kEscLinePitch;
+        window.y += kEscLinePitch / 2;
+    }
+    if (!removed) {
+        re::Log("characters: Esc menu has no %s line", kEscExportLine);
+    }
+}
+
 // The load window's second line of a row showed the (preview) file name; it
 // shows the level and the chosen difficulty instead. Row texts are set every
 // frame (0x71d830): line 1 the save's name (+0x204), line 2 the file name (+4,

src/mods/charexport.cpp

@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-// Character export (Esc menu "Exportieren"): slots can be cleared.
-//
-// Request (2026-10-18): the export screen was not adapted to widescreen, and
-// slots could not be cleared or overwritten. The layout is fixed in hud.cpp
-// (FrameScope); overwriting turned out to be the game's own path once clicks
-// hit the right slot (measured: action 9 on an occupied slot -> mode 6
-// confirmation -> action 6 exports into it).
-//
-// cUI_Character serves the main menu's character selection and the export
-// screen: mode at +0x390 (4 selection, 5 export, 6 overwrite confirmation),
-// selected slot (char, -1 none) at +0x1d6, slot controls at +0x1b4 (8, hero
-// id at +0x2f8, 0: empty). Its erase button (+0x3b4, "UI_CHAR_ERASE_TOOLTIP")
-// is created for both, but SelectSlot (0x70c440) shows it only in modes 4 / 7
-// and SetMode (0x70c760) hides it. The click handler (vf10 0x70e860) does not
-// check the mode: it opens the game's confirmation (UI_CHAR_ERASE_CONFIRM, a
-// cUI_BusyDlg), whose answer deletes the hero (0x7f01a0, slot + 1). So in
-// export mode the button is shown whenever an occupied slot is selected.
-//
-// The export screen reloads its heroes when it enters export mode (SetMode 5,
-// also after an export); after a delete nothing did, so the erased hero stayed
-// until the next export (user, 2026-10-18). After a delete from the export
-// screen it enters export mode again and the selection is cleared.
-
-#include <cstdint>
-
-#include "game/ui/control.h"
-#include "re/hook.h"
-
-namespace mods::charexport {
-namespace {
-
-constexpr size_t kMode = 0x390;
-constexpr size_t kSelectedSlot = 0x1d6;
-constexpr size_t kSlots = 0x1b4;
-constexpr size_t kSlotHeroId = 0x2f8;
-constexpr size_t kEraseButton = 0x3b4;
-constexpr int kSlotCount = 8;
-constexpr int kModeExport = 5;
-constexpr int kNoSlot = -1;
-
-// The cUI_Character instance (one, owned by the UI manager), noted when its
-// mode or selection changes.
-void* g_window = nullptr;
-
-template <typename T>
-T& Field(void* window, size_t offset) {
-    return *reinterpret_cast<T*>(static_cast<uint8_t*>(window) + offset);
-}
-
-bool SelectedSlotOccupied(void* window) {
-    const int slot = Field<int8_t>(window, kSelectedSlot);
-    if (slot < 0 || slot >= kSlotCount) {
-        return false;
-    }
-    void* control = Field<void*>(window, kSlots + slot * sizeof(void*));
-    return control && Field<uint32_t>(control, kSlotHeroId) != 0;
-}
-
-void UpdateEraseButton(void* window) {
-    void* button = Field<void*>(window, kEraseButton);
-    if (button && Field<int>(window, kMode) == kModeExport) {
-        game::SetControlShown(button, SelectedSlotOccupied(window));
-    }
-}
-
-} // namespace
-} // namespace mods::charexport
-
-namespace game {
-
-// cUI_Character::SetMode (0x70c760, thiscall (mode), ret 4).
-void __fastcall UiCharacter_SetMode(void* self, void* edx, int mode);
-RE_HOOK(0x0070c760, UiCharacter_SetMode);
-void __fastcall UiCharacter_SetMode(void* self, void* edx, int mode) {
-    mods::charexport::g_window = self;
-    UiCharacter_SetMode_original(self, edx, mode);
-    mods::charexport::UpdateEraseButton(self);
-}
-
-// cUI_Character::SelectSlot (0x70c440, thiscall (char slot, -1 none), ret 4).
-void __fastcall UiCharacter_SelectSlot(void* self, void* edx, int slot);
-RE_HOOK(0x0070c440, UiCharacter_SelectSlot);
-void __fastcall UiCharacter_SelectSlot(void* self, void* edx, int slot) {
-    mods::charexport::g_window = self;
-    UiCharacter_SelectSlot_original(self, edx, slot);
-    mods::charexport::UpdateEraseButton(self);
-}
-
-// HeroSlots_DeleteHero (0x7f01a0, thiscall on 0x7d7c40() (slot + 1), ret 4;
-// returns a bool in al), called by the erase confirmation's answer.
-int __fastcall HeroSlots_DeleteHero(void* self, void* edx, int slotPlusOne);
-RE_HOOK(0x007f01a0, HeroSlots_DeleteHero);
-int __fastcall HeroSlots_DeleteHero(void* self, void* edx, int slotPlusOne) {
-    const int result = HeroSlots_DeleteHero_original(self, edx, slotPlusOne);
-    void* window = mods::charexport::g_window;
-    using mods::charexport::Field;
-    if (window && Field<int>(window, mods::charexport::kMode) == mods::charexport::kModeExport) {
-        UiCharacter_SetMode(window, nullptr, mods::charexport::kModeExport);
-        UiCharacter_SelectSlot(window, nullptr, mods::charexport::kNoSlot);
-    }
-    return result;
-}
-
-} // namespace game

src/mods/mainmenu.cpp

@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
 
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <cstdint>
-#include <cstring>
 #include <vector>
 
+#include "game/ui/control.h"
 #include "game/ui/tabs.h"
 #include "game/ui/text.h"
 #include "game/ui/texts.h"
@@ -30,54 +30,28 @@ namespace {
 
 constexpr size_t kMenuChildren = 0x90;   // vector of all child controls
 constexpr size_t kMenuMainPage = 0x158;  // vector of the main page's entries
-constexpr size_t kEntryName = 0x30;      // char[]
 constexpr size_t kEntryTextId = 0x78;
 constexpr int kEntryPitch = 0x20;        // as 0x712f30 places them
 
 constexpr const char* kRemoved[] = {"UI_LABEL_NEWGAME", "UI_LABEL_NEWADDON"};
 constexpr char kPlayEntry[] = "UI_LABEL_LOADGAME";
 
-// A game vector of pointers {begin, end, capacity end}.
-std::vector<uint8_t*> Entries(uint8_t* owner, size_t offset) {
-    auto** begin = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(owner + offset);
-    auto** end = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(owner + offset + 4);
-    return std::vector<uint8_t*>(begin, end);
-}
-
-void Erase(uint8_t* owner, size_t offset, const uint8_t* item) {
-    auto** begin = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(owner + offset);
-    auto**& end = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(owner + offset + 4);
-    auto** found = std::find(begin, end, item);
-    if (found != end) {
-        std::memmove(found, found + 1, (end - found - 1) * sizeof(*found));
-        --end;
-    }
-}
-
-void SetAt(uint8_t* owner, size_t offset, size_t index, uint8_t* item) {
-    (*reinterpret_cast<uint8_t***>(owner + offset))[index] = item;
-}
-
-const char* Name(const uint8_t* entry) {
-    return reinterpret_cast<const char*>(entry + kEntryName);
-}
-
 int32_t& EntryY(uint8_t* entry) {
     return reinterpret_cast<game::UiRect*>(entry + game::kControlRect)->y;
 }
 
 bool IsRemoved(const uint8_t* entry) {
     return std::any_of(std::begin(kRemoved), std::end(kRemoved),
-                       [&](const char* name) { return std::strcmp(Name(entry), name) == 0; });
+                       [&](const char* name) { return game::ControlNamed(entry, name); });
 }
 
 void __fastcall MainMenu_Build(uint8_t* self, void* edx);
 RE_HOOK(0x00712f30, MainMenu_Build);
 void __fastcall MainMenu_Build(uint8_t* self, void* edx) {
     MainMenu_Build_original(self, edx);
-    const std::vector<uint8_t*> original = Entries(self, kMenuMainPage);
+    const std::vector<uint8_t*> original = game::ControlsIn(self, kMenuMainPage);
     auto play = std::find_if(original.begin(), original.end(),
-                             [](const uint8_t* entry) { return std::strcmp(Name(entry), kPlayEntry) == 0; });
+                             [](const uint8_t* entry) { return game::ControlNamed(entry, kPlayEntry); });
     if (original.empty() || play == original.end()) {
         re::Log("mainmenu: no %s entry, menu left as it is", kPlayEntry);
         return;
@@ -99,14 +73,13 @@ void __fastcall MainMenu_Build(uint8_t* self, void* edx) {
     }
     for (uint8_t* entry : original) {
         if (IsRemoved(entry)) {
-            Erase(self, kMenuMainPage, entry);
+            game::RemoveControl(self, kMenuMainPage, entry);
-            Erase(self, kMenuChildren, entry);
+            game::RemoveControl(self, kMenuChildren, entry);
-            using DeleteFn = void*(__fastcall*)(void*, void*, int);  // scalar deleting destructor
+            game::DeleteControl(entry);
-            reinterpret_cast<DeleteFn>((*reinterpret_cast<void***>(entry))[0])(entry, nullptr, 1);
         }
     }
     for (size_t i = 0; i < kept.size(); ++i) {
-        SetAt(self, kMenuMainPage, i, kept[i]);
+        game::SetControlAt(self, kMenuMainPage, i, kept[i]);
         y += keptGap[i];
         EntryY(kept[i]) = y;
         y += kEntryPitch;

tools/names.txt

@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
 0x006e7730 cUI_Tooltip::Layout               # measures the text, width = longest line + 8 unless flag 0x100
 0x0075ac70 cUI_Manager::ShowTooltip          # (x, y, text, ?, flags, show)
 
-# Character selection / export screen (src/mods/charexport.cpp)
+# Character selection / export screen (cUI_Character)
 0x0070c760 cUI_Character::SetMode          # (mode), ret 4: +0x390 (4 selection, 5 export, 6 overwrite confirm)
 0x0070c440 cUI_Character::SelectSlot       # (char slot, -1 none), ret 4
 0x0070d0f0 cUI_Character::ExecuteAction    # (action, slot, extra), ret 0xc: 6 export into slot, 9 export (confirm if occupied)