Communicating between wow client <> external

[SinnerG]

Does anyone know of a clean method of exposing info (by setting it lua-wise) to an external application?

The work-around I use for now is I do a FontString and set the text to something like UNIQUENAME:<data goes here>

I then search the memory for UNIQUENAME and read it in as an ASCII string (\0 terminated)

It works, but atm it takes (on my PC, setting the starting offset @ 0x0F000000) around 300-400ms 'per call'

This should do for now. I'm trying to expose as much information as possible, without injecting anything! So only 'non injecting' solutions guys :P

[Cypher]

I know I know, I'm not answering your question, but.. why do you need to do this with Lua? It would be about 100x easier to just use a named pipe or something.

[SinnerG]

Care to explain Cypher? Keep in mind, I want to stay out-of-process

[flo8464]

You are executing lua code but you want to stay out-of-process?

[Cypher]

Care to explain Cypher? Keep in mind, I want to stay out-of-process

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-me...cess-bots.html

[SinnerG]

Yes, I read that. I see no way that Warden can detect it as long as I keep it private (or people modify the required addon so they cant simply ban the addon ^^)

The only thing I do in the wow client is setting a text field to a certain text :P (and reading it back from memory using a 'memory search', much like cheat engine does it)

I don't hook anything.

[MaiN]

He's probably using a LUA add-on or something like that.

[Cypher]

Yes, I read that. I see no way that Warden can detect it as long as I keep it private (or people modify the required addon so they cant simply ban the addon ^^)

The only thing I do in the wow client is setting a text field to a certain text :P (and reading it back from memory using a 'memory search', much like cheat engine does it)

I don't hook anything.

Yeah... I'm too tired for this right now. Someone else wanna take over?

He's probably using a LUA add-on or something like that.

His latest post does indeed imply that, however it doesn't really change my point.

If your hack is private it's no more detectable to just inject a DLL and do what I said (use a named pipe, memory mapped file, etc). Not to mention it would be over nine thousand times faster.

[SinnerG]

Well, it is more for learning purposes so maybe I'll switch to the 'alternative' method at some point, but for now I'm happy as is

And yeah, its a seperate wow addon, doing regular things :P

[Cypher]

Well, it is more for learning purposes so maybe I'll switch to the 'alternative' method at some point, but for now I'm happy as is

And yeah, its a seperate wow addon, doing regular things :P

If you're happy with it how it is, then why are you asking if anyone has an alternative method you can replace it with?

[SinnerG]

Well, I was asking if anyone know a better way to SET data @ wow and retrieve it by reading its memory (a static or more static address?) since currently it takes 500ms to retrieve the data (since it needs to scan for the 'keyword') - thats why I was asking

[Cypher]

Zzzzzz .

[adaephon]

LUA Addon write to file, your external whatever read from file?

[Cypher]

LUA Addon write to file, your external whatever read from file?

Afaik Lua addons can't write to files.

[flo8464]

Afaik Lua addons can't write to files.

Sure they can, or at least they can store data.
Think of Auctioneer databases etc