sending text to warcraftiii

[Laff]

i need to know if there is a way to send text to the local warcraftiii client and have it be displayed in game.  can i just dummy up a packet that looks like a whisper and send it out with winpcap?  or is there an easier way?  thanks.

[iago]

I'm assuming you mean during a game.  You follow these steps:

1) press enter
2) typr your message
3) press enter

Hope this helps!

[Laff]

-_-

no, i meant from MY PROGRAM.  nice one though.  made me laugh when i read it.

[iago]

There is an easy way to send keystrokes to a different program.  In VB it's SendKey or something.  Try googling sending keystrokes to other processes from visual basic or something.

[Laff]

seriously guys this is NOT what i'm asking.  i need to make warcraftiii think it's receiving text, not me actually sending text.

i'm very aware of sendkeys...from my old vb days.  i don't use vb anymore, c# is where it's at.

[Zakath]

My guess would be that you'll need to hook into and manually call whatever function War3 uses for processing incoming text. Better get out the disassembler!

[UserLoser.]

i need to know if there is a way to send text to the local warcraftiii client and have it be displayed in game.  can i just dummy up a packet that looks like a whisper and send it out with winpcap?  or is there an easier way?  thanks.

Find out what packet/format/ect and I'll find a way to send it for you

[iago]

If you want to send it to yourself, that's difficult.  You're going to have to call the actual game's function that processes recieved messages.  To do that, you'll need to execute code in the game's context.  Have fun

[UserLoser.]

If you want to send it to yourself, that's difficult.  You're going to have to call the actual game's function that processes recieved messages.  To do that, you'll need to execute code in the game's context.  Have fun

That's what i was planning on trying to do But i don't feel like getting on war3, joining a ladder game, then finding out what packet it is, ect.  otherwise i'll be re-addicted to war3

[Laff]

i'm just trying to spoof a packet right...and see if wc3 gets it...we'll see.

[MyndFyre]

i'm just trying to spoof a packet right...and see if wc3 gets it...we'll see.

Methinks it would be easier to just use WC3's draw-text function.

[Zakath]

If you want to send it to yourself, that's difficult.  You're going to have to call the actual game's function that processes recieved messages.  To do that, you'll need to execute code in the game's context.  Have fun

I thought I just said that! I feel like $t0rm here.

[Kp]

i'm just trying to spoof a packet right...and see if wc3 gets it...we'll see.

Methinks it would be easier to just use WC3's draw-text function.

Assuming they didn't get stupid and forget everything they learned from Starcraft, they're likely storing text messages in some structure for whenever it needs to be redrawn.  If you don't want to have your text wiped at the next update, I'd suggest getting the message stored into that structure.  Either run code in w3 like Zakath said or use WriteProcessMemory to poke the message and supporting bookkeeping directly into the right structure.

[Laff]

yeh i got no idea how to do that

[Forged]

check and see what happens when  you send a message and then duplicate it?