Help getting text from hidden control

Hollinar · December 15, 2006

I understand how to get text from a window and from a Control. The problem is, the control is nowhere to be found. I've tried using WinGetClassList, WinGetText for each entry of WinList, Using a delay and Alt+Tabbing into the window and using WinGetText("active"). Finally, I tried using the following code, thinking that perhaps it unloaded the text while it wasn't on top:

AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Global $var = WinList()
Global $var2[UBound($var)][UBound($var, 2) + 1]
Sleep(10000)
For $i = 1 to UBound($var) - 1
    $var2[$i][0] = $var[$i][0]
    $var2[$i][1] = $var[$i][1]
    $var2[$i][2] = WinGetText($var[$i][0])
Next
MsgBox(0, "...", "done getting text")
For $a = 1 to UBound($var2) - 1
    MsgBox(0, "Details", "Title=" & $var2[$a][0] & @LF & "Handle=" & $var2[$a][1] & @LF & "Text:" & @LF & $var2[$a][2])
Next

This code didn't help me either. The sleep allows me to alt+tab into the window. The code lists the text in every window, no matter if it's visible or not. I tried using Au3Info.exe as well, but that shows nothing for text(but it does get the proper Pixel color). I'm wondering if there was something I missed, or if what I'm trying to do is impossible.

Valuater · December 15, 2006

is this the internet.. or a browser???

if not... maybe someone here might know the program or how to work with it..

if you want to give the title/program name

8)

Edited December 15, 2006 by Valuater

Outshynd · December 15, 2006

What kind of window are you trying to get text from? Is it a particular application? A game, perhaps?

Hollinar · December 15, 2006

Yeah, it's a game called Astonia 3... I'm working on a miner-bot but I need to be able to read the chat box.

Outshynd · December 15, 2006

Quite hard to do using AutoIt's inherent *GetText functions. If you really need to read the chat box in a game, start learning how to read/manipulate the process' memory. Don't know of any other way that fits your needs.

Hollinar · December 15, 2006

Okay, using a debugger, I've found that the following sections of code contain the text in the chat box...

Dump 1:

CODE

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Dump 2

CODE

0058D858 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .......

0058D860 1F D9 5C 00 00 00 00 00 Ù\.....

0058D868 3A 07 00 00 E1 18 5B 00 :..á[.

0058D870 E3 3F 00 00 A2 0E 00 00 ã?..¢..

0058D878 00 00 00 00 F4 2B DE 00 ....ô+Þ.

0058D880 E2 C8 43 00 03 C9 43 00 âÈC.ÉC.

0058D888 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0058D890 3B FC EA 46 00 00 00 00 ;üêF....

0058D898 00 00 00 00 AE 88 32 0B ....®ˆ2

0058D8A0 09 0D 00 61 6C 69 61 73 ...alias

0058D8A8 52 44 20 2D 3E 20 31 30 RD -> 10

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005918A0 00 00 00 00 07 0F 7F 00 .....

005918A8 81 00 B8 E2 04 A7 32 3D .¸â§2=

005918B0 00 00 00 73 02 01 08 00 ...s.

005918B8 05 64 64 64 18 07 00 00 ddd..

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005C18D0 00 00 00 00 18 0A 00 B0 ......°

005C18D8 63 39 41 75 63 74 69 6F c9Auctio

005C18E0 6E 3A 20 B0 63 31 37 4D n: °c17M

005C18E8 61 67 69 63 62 75 73 B0 agicbus°

005C18F0 63 31 38 20 28 31 29 20 c18 (1)

005C18F8 73 61 79 73 3A 20 22 73 says: "s

005C1900 65 6C 6C 20 2B 31 34 20 ell +14

005C1908 65 63 63 20 72 69 6E 67 ecc ring

005C1910 20 75 65 20 20 20 6D 62 ue mb

005C1918 20 35 6B 22 00 00 00 00 5k"....

I'm afraid this is beyond my current scope of understanding, so I must ask for help on how to develop a function that would search the proper adresses for a string, then return the next 20-30 characters after it. Normally I prefer to learn these things myself(I'm self-taught in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS fairly well and VB and C# I know the basics of), but as I said, this is beyond my scope of understanding like the moon is out of arm's reach :wacko:

Any help you can offer would be great, and if needed I can zip up the two dumps I got those adresses from and upload to rapidshare or something. Thanks.

Edited December 15, 2006 by Hollinar

The Kandie Man · December 15, 2006

Use w0uter's memory functions to edit the memory:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19329

It appears you have the memory addresses, so all you need now is to input the changes into his memory functions to change the data and hopefully not crash the program.

Hollinar · December 15, 2006

Ahh, but I don't need to modify the memory at all, just read it and look for a string in it, the string being a variation of "Macro Daemon", I would have to get a dump of it most likely... But anyways, If you know of a function that can search a range of adresses for a string and return the text following that string, please do tell. Perhaps a variation of the following code, searching a wide range?

AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
$PID = WinGetProcess("Astonia")
Func CheckMem($start, $end)
    $current = $start
    While $current <> $end
        $i_Open = _MemOpen($PID)
        $searchtext = _MemRead($i_Open, $current)
        _MemClose($i_Open)
        $current = $current + 1
        If StringInStr($searchtext, "Macro Daemon") Then
            $current = $end
        EndIf
    WEnd
EndFunc

Please note, I wrote this in-browser, so I'm not sure of it's validity.

Problem already... anyone know how to incriment a hex? can i do $current = $current + 1? Even if not, I've edited it into the code area...

Edited December 15, 2006 by Hollinar

Hollinar · December 15, 2006

Sorry about my double post, but it won't let me re-edit my previous one. This is the code I have now, along with the _Mem functions at http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19329

Func CheckMem($processid, $start, $finish, $text)
    $current = Dec($start)
    $end = Dec($finish)
    $found = 0
    MsgBox(0, "Starting search", "Starting search..." & @CRLF & "Variables passed to the script: " & @CRLF & $processid & @CRLF & $start & @CRLF & $finish & @CRLF & $text)
    Sleep(10000)
    $i_Open = _MemOpen($processid)
    While $current <> $end
        $searchtext = _MemRead($i_Open, Hex($current))
        $current = $current + 1
        If StringInStr($searchtext, $text) Then
            MsgBox(0, "found", "Found It!" & @CRLF & "Adress: " & Hex($current) & @CRLF & "Text: " & $searchtext)
            $current = $end
            $found = 1
        EndIf
    WEnd
    _MemClose($i_Open)
    If $found = 0 Then
        MsgBox(0, "not found", "Error! It wasn't found... Variables passed to the script: " & $processid & @CRLF & $start & @CRLF & $finish & @CRLF & $text)
    EndIf
EndFunc
Call("CheckMem", WinGetProcess("Astonia"), 0x0044D000, 0x0044E000, "RING")
Exit

Now, I first used this to search the memory of the game itself. It's extremely slow(takes about 10 secs to scan that little bit with window inactive, 25-30 secs to scan with it active), but it found it. OllyDbg shows the string "RING" to be at 0x0044D1B8 - 0x0044D1BF, and the start of the code is at 0x0044D000.

The script returns the following when it gets to it:

Found it!
Adress: 04510133
Text: RING

After this it exits as intended. I have two problems currently. The execution time is HORRENDOUS, and the Adress fails to come out properly.

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