I Need Some Help Please

[dterry]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

I'm an avid gamer, and I currently enjoy playing Asheron's Call (AC) by Microsoft and Turbine. This is an online role playing game and my question pertains to this game... Or rather subclassing it, I think.

There are currently several programs written in VB (by players) that communicate with AC. I have written the developers to find of how they communicate with AC, but no luck. They are just not telling their secrets, but they say it was easy. Yeah, thanks guys.

There is a chat area in the game that these programs are communicating with - trapping commands used by these programs - and sending information back to AC. How?

I can identify the AC window, get its HWND, but from there I'm clueless.

Also, there are keyboard commands that AC uses to perform certain tasks and/or events. These programs also communicate with that function of AC as well. Once, again how do they do that?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
dterry

[SteveCRM]

So you want to be able to use Asherons Call through code?

[dterry]

Well... My intention with games like these - Asheron's Call, EverQuest, etc - are to make support programs. Mapping programs, macro programs, etc. There are software programs out now that interact with AC like these, but they could use some more functionality.

The question is how do they do it? I just tried sendmessage to see if I could get something back from that window, but no luck.

Memory? Could this informtion be stored in a memory address somewhere?