Re: Accessing memory of another application?
Re: Accessing memory of another application?
- Subject: Re: Accessing memory of another application?
- From: "Clark Cox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:52:35 -0700
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:
> on 2008-08-12 12:04 PM, Josh at email@hidden wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get started w/viewing/editing/interacting with the memory of
>> another running application but I'm not where to get started.
>
> It isn't clear to me what you mean.
By "game trainer", I assume the Josh means a program that you can run
to peek/poke specific locations in the memory space of a videogame to
change the outcome of the game (i.e. grant yourself more
money/points/life, whatever).
>
> When some people ask questions like this, what they really mean is that they
> want to be able to control the other application's windows, menus, etc.
> There are several ways to do that, including the Accessibility API and
> Quartz Event Taps.
>
> Other people really mean that they want to share the data used by the other
> application. If you wrote the other program, you can do that in a variety of
> ways, including shared preferences and distributed notifications. Even if
> you didn't write the other program, you may be able to do something with its
> documents or, if it supports AppleScript, with its terminology dictionary.
> Even if it doesn't support AppleScript, you can probably control it and thus
> get at its data using GUI Scripting.
>
> Other people mean literally accessing the RAM currently in use by the other
> application, and I have no idea how you would go about approaching that
> task.
That is, this last meaning.
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
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