MPQ files locked - any ways?

[Wildbreath]

Working with reading MPQ files to make my own bot navigation system. All ok when wow isn't running, but these files locked by Wow process when it running (using stormlib C# wrapper)
But why any text|hex editor can read the data of these files?
Any ways to read MPQ's in runtime?

[namreeb]

stormlib I believe is trying to open the files with exclusive read (or possibly even write) access. Change that.

[Wildbreath]

Was trying to open with readonly arg, but still fail. Seems i should fix and recompile stormlib manually :\

[wraithZX]

I use WoW's own functions and transfer the data via IPC at runtime.
No need to worry about which base MPQ or patch MPQ's are needed to be loaded and/or ordering, etc. etc.

[SwInY]

i edited Stormlib to allow for it to read while having WoW Open ( Locked )

download the DLL on my SVN

https://wowgather.googlecode.com/svn/trunk

http://wowgather.googlecode.com/svn/...b/StormLib.dll