sending text to warcraftiii

[Laff]

big fat nothing.  the tcp/ip interface matches as well so it discards the packet is my guess.  if anyone can help get straight writing the war3's directx window working, i'd love it.

[Forged]

good luck with that, though I rember some guy I know was doing something like that. I will talk to him next time he is online and see if I can get him to post some info on it.

[Skywing]

big fat nothing.  the tcp/ip interface matches as well so it discards the packet is my guess.  if anyone can help get straight writing the war3's directx window working, i'd love it.

Back in the Warcraft III beta, I just passed a faked info chat event directly to the handler for Battle.net chat events (in order to display a string).  Somewhat of an ugly hack I suppose, but it worked.  You might be able to do something similar, still.

[Laff]

how exactly did you do this?  exactly what i'm looking for

[Skywing]

how exactly did you do this?  exactly what i'm looking for

I built a chat event packet and called the handler function with the appropriate parameters.

To do that, you'll probably have to find out what the address of the chat event handler is, and what parameters it takes.  As I recall, you also need to get the class instance for Warcraft III's singleton BattleNet class and grab a critical section while calling the handler.

Of course, my information is several years old, dating back to the early beta.  Things might work differently now.

[Laff]

i may be 8 months from having my hardware engineering and software engineering degrees (both bachelors) but i have no idea how to go about doing that.

[MyndFyre]

i may be 8 months from having my hardware engineering and software engineering degrees (both bachelors) but i have no idea how to go about doing that.

It doesn't count if you get your degrees from those non-accreditted universities that send you spam e-mail.

[Laff]

oregon institute of technology thx.

[Zakath]

reverse engineering, laff...you've gotta take it apart