loading a dll

[@$3.1415rin]

I guess sockets would be still the way to go ... since you can load plugins into the server without any problems, why try to do some other stuff, which might be prevented or causing other problems.

[Lazy]

Originally Posted by stefanhendriks

Lazy, why aren't you a heck of a bot-coder? You seem to have some pretty good knowledge about this stuff!

I can't remain focused enough unfortunately, I have ideas and always wanted to make a bot to teach people Natural Selection but keep getting lost in bloated frameworks.
Although the one I'm making now isn't bad I just have re-design parts of it.
And my math is terrible too

As for using sockets, make sure you use non-blocking sockets so the server won't have to wait for calls to recv and send to return.

[dub]

here a way windows only using CreateToolhelpSnapshot Then Module32First
& Module32Next.

class CProcess  
{
public:
	CProcess () : dwProcessID(NULL), dwThreadId(NULL), iStrLen(0) { }
	virtual	~CProcess () { }
	DWORD	GetProcessIDFromExeName (LPSTR lpExecutableName);
	MODULEENTRY32 GetModuleEntryForDll (LPSTR lpExeName, LPSTR lpDllName);
	
	HANDLE		hSnapshot;
	PROCESSENTRY32  pe32;
	MODULEENTRY32	me32;
private:
	DWORD		dwProcessID;
	DWORD		dwThreadId;
	int			iStrLen;
	char		        szExeName[64];
};

DWORD CProcess::GetProcessIDFromExeName (LPSTR lpExecutableName)
{
	if ((hSnapshot = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot (TH32CS_SNAPALL, NULL)) == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
		return NULL;

	pe32.dwSize = sizeof (pe32);

	if (!Process32First(hSnapshot, &pe32))
	{
		CloseHandle (hSnapshot);
		return NULL;
	}

	// scan all the open process`s on the computer
	do
	{
		iStrLen = strlen (pe32.szExeFile);

		strcpy (szExeName, &pe32.szExeFile[iStrLen]);
		
		// skip the backward slash and get just the exe name
		// if it returns the full path name doesn`t seem to do
		// it in XP just the exe name.
		if (strstr (pe32.szExeFile, "/") != NULL)
		{
			while ((iStrLen) && (pe32.szExeFile[iStrLen-1] != '/'))
				iStrLen--;
			strcpy (szExeName, &pe32.szExeFile[iStrLen]);
		}

		// some reason break didn`t seem to work
		if (strcmpi (lpExecutableName, szExeName) == 0)
			goto done;
		
	} while (Process32Next (hSnapshot, &pe32) != 0);

done:
	CloseHandle (hSnapshot);
	return (pe32.th32ProcessID);
}

MODULEENTRY32 CProcess::GetModuleEntryForDll (LPSTR lpExeName, LPSTR lpDllName)
{
	if ((hSnapshot = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot (TH32CS_SNAPMODULE, GetProcessIDFromExeName (lpExeName))) == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
	{
		ZeroMemory (&me32, sizeof (me32));
		return me32;
	}

	me32.dwSize = sizeof (me32);

	if (!Module32First (hSnapshot, &me32))
	{
		CloseHandle (hSnapshot);
		ZeroMemory (&me32, sizeof (me32));
		return me32;
	}

	// scan all the open process`s on the computer
	do
	{
		// some reason break didn`t seem to work
		if (strcmpi (lpDllName, me32.szModule) == 0)
			goto done;
		
	} while (Module32Next (hSnapshot, &me32) != 0);

done:
	CloseHandle (hSnapshot);
	return (me32);
}

after you will have full access for the dll.