Reading char array pointer

[death pax]

Ive been trying to retrieve a pointer to a char array through dllcall, but i cant seem to get the return data, Any Suggestions?

What im trying to do is retrieve the title of the current song playing in winamp, without reading the window title.

dim $WM_USER=0x0400
dim $IPC_GETLISTLENGTH=124
dim $IPC_GETLISTPOS=125
dim $IPC_GETPLAYLISTTITLE=212

dim $hwnd
$hwnd=WinGetHandle("classname=Winamp v1.x")
dim $pointer

$pointer =DllCall("User32.dll","ptr","SendMessage","int",$hwnd,"int",$WM_USER,"int",$ListPos,"int",$IPC_GETLISTPOS)

i was able to make a working version in c++ but im stumped... when i searched the forums someone suggested using str or wstr as returntype, but that crashes autoit

Thanks in advance

Edited March 4, 2006 by death pax

[death pax]

anyone?

[death pax]

Shit, sorry left out something...

dim $WM_USER=0x0400
dim $IPC_GETLISTLENGTH=124
dim $IPC_GETLISTPOS=125
dim $IPC_GETPLAYLISTTITLE=212
$chararray = DLLStructCreate("char[256]")
dim $hwnd
opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
$hwnd=WinGetHandle("classname=Winamp v1.x")
dim $pointer
dim $listPos
$listPos=DllCall("User32.dll","int","SendMessage","int",$hwnd,"int",$WM_USER,"int",0,"int",$IPC_GETLISTPOS)
$pointer=DLLStructGetPtr($chararray)
$pointer=DllCall("User32.dll","ptr","SendMessage","int",$hwnd,"int",$WM_USER,"int",$listpos[0],"int",$IPC_GETPLAYLISTTITLE)
MsgBox(4096,"",DllStructGetData($chararray,1))

totally my bad... still doesnt work though o.O

sorry for misleading you

[death pax]

whenever i try to return a str with that func it crashes autoit

[death pax]

Perhaps it would be helpful for me to show you my C++ code to do the same thing

#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstdio>
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    DWORD m_dwProcessID, Window;
    HWND m_hWindow = FindWindow ("Winamp v1.x", NULL);
    GetWindowThreadProcessId(m_hWindow, &m_dwProcessID);
    HANDLE m_hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_VM_READ, FALSE, m_dwProcessID);
    char szTrack[765] = { '\0' };
    int iTrackPos = SendMessage(m_hWindow, 1024, 0, 125);
    DWORD m_dwBytes;
    char *pszName = (char *)SendMessage(m_hWindow, 1024, iTrackPos, 212);
ReadProcessMemory(m_hProcess, pszName, szTrack, 765, &m_dwBytes);

if (m_dwBytes < 765)
    szTrack[m_dwBytes] = '\0'; // no escape sequences
    cout << "Currently Playing: " <<szTrack <<"\n";  
    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

[death pax]

still not working... ah well, in that case, do you think you could tell me to get functions in a dll to export properly... whenever i try making a dll the functions are unusable externally