[Help] Getting ChatBufferPos

[teufel123]

im currently writing a chat program in autoit and i got the reading of the chat covered but i cant get the chatbufferpos working. i tryed it with this code:

$bufferpos = _MEMORYREAD($WoWBase + 0x9F79C0, $HPROCESS, "dword")

0x9F79C0 should be corret. i even tryed every other memread type but i dont get the bufferpos. i just want the read the lastest thing that the chat recieved but maybe its the code to read the chat. for that i use this

$chat = _MEMORYREAD($Base + 0x99E428 + 0x3C + 0x17C0 * $bufferpos , $HPROCESS, "char[666]")

the code above should give me the lastest stuff, but it doesnt work :X
id appreciate any help

[Azzie2k8]

Try printing bufferpos and take a look at what is read.
The way you try to read the last chat entry looks fine to me although there are easier apporaches to read the chat but nvm.
Also are you sure about the "char[666]" you are reading as type of chat/string ?

[teufel123]

yea, char is for string and the [666] is the lenght of the string it shoud read to. the bufferpos is actually ok like 36 or whatever but if i use the chat code with the bufferpos i dont get the lastest thing i say in chat

[Azzie2k8]

yea, char is for string and the [666] is the lenght of the string it shoud read to. the bufferpos is actually ok like 36 or whatever but if i use the chat code with the bufferpos i dont get the lastest thing i say in chat

Aha well Autoit is crazy

Did you try to read the first element in the array ? so instead of the buffer position just insert 0 and check what is printed. if it shows some sort of message you know where the issue is...

edit: I still dont understand why you are only reading the first 666 chars but wth...

[teufel123]

0 not working, cause 0 would be then pos = 0. and i could use 400 or something for the cars cause its not longer then the but whatever ^^

[Azzie2k8]

0 not working, cause 0 would be then pos = 0. and i could use 400 or something for the cars cause its not longer then the but whatever ^^

uhu ehm then again pls tell me why the hell should NULL not work ?!?! it is a goddamn array. 0 is the first element...

edit: just think about why 0x17c0 or whatever is called NextMessage and not something else...

if you are not reading anything when trying with pos = 0 and there is at least 1 message in the chat box => you are reading the chat buffer wrong.

if on the other hand you are reading it correctly your bufferpos is read wrong...

just try and post it