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Passing parameters to .CT

 
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RainbowJ96
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:05 am    Post subject: Passing parameters to .CT Reply with quote
Hi guys! Very Happy

I'm trying to pass parameters to my .CT file, executed by autoit.

That's the file:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CheatTable CheatEngineTableVersion="45">
  <Files>
    <asd.CT Encoding="Ascii85">Long string here</asd.CT>
  </Files>
  <CheatEntries/>
  <UserdefinedSymbols/>
  <LuaScript>pid = argv[1]
  print(pid)
openProcess(pid)
local dllPath = "MyDLL.dll"
injectDLL(dllPath)
closeCE()
</LuaScript>
</CheatTable>



And then i call it via AutoIt with this:
Code:
$pid = WinGetProcess("MyProcess")
$filePath = @ScriptDir & "MyCT.CT"
   ShellExecute($filePath,$pid)



An error occurs:
Error executing this table's lua script: [string "pid = argv[1]
..."]:1: attempt to index a nil value (global 'argv')


Can someone tell me the correct way to do that?

Thank you!
-Rain
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AylinCE
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 2:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
First define "argv".
I think it's a table and you should put something like this at the beginning of the script:

Code:
argv = {"chrome.exe", "opera.exe", "game.exe", "etc.exe"}
pid = argv[1]
pid2 = argv[2]

print(pid, pid2)

> chrome.exe
> opera.exe
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
OP is talking about command line arguments. i.e. argc / argv in C

I don't know of any good way to get those. You might need to go through the windows API. See GetCommandLineW, CommandLineToArgvW, LocalFree, and maybe WideCharToMultiByte.

Can you do what you want entirely in CE?
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