GetLocalizedText and C++

[Shynd]

Name your variables something unique; how many variables named 'count' do you think are referenced in all of the Blizzard UI and other AddOns you have installed and why do you think that GetLocalizedText("count") is going to return YOUR count instead of one of the dozens of others that are probably being used?

[flo8464]

Name your variables something unique; how many variables named 'count' do you think are referenced in all of the Blizzard UI and other AddOns you have installed and why do you think that GetLocalizedText("count") is going to return YOUR count instead of one of the dozens of others that are probably being used?

Thanks for your reply.

Well...

1.) Tried it with iiitemcccounttt as varname .. .doesn't work, too.
2.) Like I said, ingame as

/script count = GetItemCount(6256)
/script print(count);

It works :/

[flo8464]

Apologize for Double-posting.

Anyone got an idea?

[lanman92]

You could write a stub function that returns the address of the string and just call that. You'd have to register a lua function though(patch the protection check). This is probably similar to what GetLocalizedText does but w/e. Actually, you could just have an injected function that doesn't have to be registered that just pops a var off the lua stack and returns it.

[flo8464]

You could write a stub function that returns the address of the string and just call that. You'd have to register a lua function though(patch the protection check). This is probably similar to what GetLocalizedText does but w/e. Actually, you could just have an injected function that doesn't have to be registered that just pops a var off the lua stack and returns it.

Well, GetLocalisedText works fine.
The problem is using lua-functions with arguments with DoString.
I really don't know why they fail..well, print() works for some reasons.

[Cypher]

Well, GetLocalisedText works fine.
The problem is using lua-functions with arguments with DoString.
I really don't know why they fail..well, print() works for some reasons.

Just because your post is a tad unclear and I don't want people to be confused.

Lua functions with arguments work fine with DoString. Your code is screwed.

[flo8464]

Much to screw?

typedef void  (__cdecl *DoLuaStringPtr)(const char* lString,const char* lString2, void* luastate);
DoLuaStringPtr	 DoLuaString = reinterpret_cast<DoLuaStringPtr>(0x49AAB0);

DoLuaString("print(GetItemCount(6256))", "print(GetItemCount(6256))", NULL);

[ramey]

I have zero problems using DoString.

[flo8464]

I have zero problems using DoString.

You are doing it like me ?

[ramey]

You are doing it like me ?

I used to, but at the moment I am creating my own DoString macro

edit: For some functions are you just not escaping your quotes? :|

[flo8464]

I used to, but at the moment I am creating my own DoString macro

edit: For some functions are you just not escaping your quotes? :|

Where should I escape quotes if the only ones I use are those to tell the compiler its a string ?
And I don't get what you mean when you say you create your own macro? There is nothing more comfortable than a function pointer...

[ramey]

Where should I escape quotes if the only ones I use are those to tell the compiler its a string ?
And I don't get what you mean when you say you create your own macro? There is nothing more comfortable than a function pointer...

For example DoString("message(\"lol\")", "message(\"lol\")", NULL);

...

Lua_DoString is a macro itself in lua, you might want to have a look at the lua source sometime. It is a macro of a few functions, but I create my own macro.

[flo8464]

For example DoString("message(\"lol\")", "message(\"lol\")", NULL);

...

Lua_DoString is a macro itself in lua, you might want to have a look at the lua source sometime. It is a macro of a few functions, but I create my own macro.

I know how its implemented in Lua (Combining loadstring and pcall) , using lua for my scripting in c++ applications for 1 year now

Back to topic: Did you use DoString() like I posted here or different? I really cant figure out whats wrong ...

[ramey]

I have used it like that before. What exactly is the problem?

[flo8464]

I have used it like that before. What exactly is the problem?

GetItemCount(6256) returns zero if used by DoString() --> wrong
GetItemCount(6256) returns one if used as "\script xxx" in WoW-chatbox --> correct

I also can't use all other Lua-Functions with aguments ...except print().

That doesn't make sense to me.