Reading values from programs with scripts

[Pofi]

Hello,

 

Any idea if there's some way to read in values directly from programs and use them in a script as a variable. For example stats from an end game screen or gpu temperature from speedfan or hwinfo?

[manikyath]

if those programs have an API you can hook into - thats all okay. (openhardwaremonitor has hooks that can be used by for example rainmeter)

 

otherwise... you're gonna have to delve into the territory that many game bot developers walk into, which i'm not gonna touch, at all.

[Paralectic]

I think it's only possible if they have an API.

[as96]

Possible? Yes.

 

The problem is that unless the softwares gives you an API you are gonna have to read values from memory like Cheat Engine does and that could and probably will become pretty complex.

[Pofi]

So if a program doesn't have an API and I tried to do everything by reading memory values - is there any guarantee that the objects im reading will be stored in the same memory location every time i run the program, or will they just be random every single time?

[Pofi]

@manikyath

Huge thanks for the openhardwaremonitor - it can run a server with all the values written out and I'm sure I can read the values from there fairly easily, thanks!