oops! Ok, I'll take a look, thanks!
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > Michael C wrote: > > > > I am wrestling with my life right now, but I'll post more hopefully by > > tomorrow. > > > > Also, I am trying to write my own 'Cheat Engine' or just a memory > > scanner in general, > > I am just looking for simple values such as a int or a double. > > Wrong thread. > > Here is C++ code that does what you asked, based on a StackExchange > article that was trying to cheat on games by increasing the money > level. This one scans my gvim editor process looking for the "cpp" > extension. It finds several hundred occurrences: > https://pastebin.com/BbyrXxsf > > It's possible to convert that to Python, but you're using ctypes so much > that you're basically writing C code in Python. Further, Python doesn't > worry about representations in memory. If you're searching for a > specific floating point value, then you need to know exactly how it was > stored, bit for bit. Is it single precision? Double precision? Scaled > integer? Are you sure? > > And if you do find the value, you can't change it unless you're sure > it's not a false positive. You're likely to find any 4-byte random > value somewhere in a process, perhaps even as bytes of machine code. > You don't want to change it unless you're sure it's a numeric constant > and not, say, a pointer. > > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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