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[boosali]

hi guyz, I"m a student in a university, and i have a little project on my mind.
unfortunattlly to get my project done, i will have to learn some additional programing lang.
my question is what lang. i should start learning if my goal is eventually to be able to extract information from a running programs? (without OCR)

for example, i have chess game running, and it records all moves in a small text box inside the program, how can i access that text box and write my own file with the txt? (well, actually i allready know how to write a file, but i need to access)

i know Visual Basic and C.

i saw on the internet that alot of programs use something called "api" to "comunicate", can i use? maybe something better? similar?

thnkx alot!!!!

[Orjan]

API means Application Programming Interface and is predefined routines on how to use built in solutions from operating systems or other programs.

[boosali]

so it has no relevance to my question...
as i unerstand, the fact that my chess maybe using API, doesnt mean its helping me... right?

[WingedPanther]

You will probably need to focus on using C or C++ with the windows API to create a hook into your (for example) chess program.

[boosali]

o.k... when i said i know C... i dont think i know it that well...

so should i look for a "API" guid? or its C that i shloud know better?


p.s, sorry if my english is bad, i am not from an english speaking country :)

[WingedPanther]

An API is basically a set of functions you can use after you include a special header file. If you search, you should be able to find the Windows API. Depending on how well you know C, this could be a challenge, however.

[boosali]

is there any other way then using API?

[WingedPanther]

There are some programs that can do this for you, but they're using the windows API.

[boosali]

really, there are? that will be very helpfull.... can u give me a name? or how to look for it?
(i understand that i should use google, but what do i search for?)

thnx guyz!!

[WingedPanther]

They're usually programs for hacking games. "memory hack program" may have useful results.