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[zezikaaikwe]

I've been trying to figure this out for a long, long time on my own. Rather than spin around in circles forever, I thought I'd reach out to the experts. As a disclaimer, I'm a bit of a noob, so bear with me...

What I want to do is simply log text displayed in my program to a file every time it changes. That's all. I'm at the point where I've located the address where the text is written to, and I've found the address that writes to it:

[not allowed to use URLs, so I've attached the images]

Okay, so now I suppose that I need to get that value out to a file via a code injection as per the tutorial. I'm trying desperately to do this, but I'm just not sure how to:

- write the assembly to output the value of the address to a file, or
- call a Lua script / C++ dll to do it

Is there a simple way to do this? Every similar link I've come across has to do with a simple "logfile:write", but I just don't know how to even begin to call that or reference the values I've found. Similarly, I don't even really understand how to loop in Lua into the code.

Any help would be much appreciated; my mind is spent. Thanks all.

[booingthetroll]

If you're a beginner, then in my opinion, your best bet will be Lua.
Example code:
local file = io.open("C:\\Users\\Taco\\HelloWorldProgram.lua", "w")
file:write("print('Hello World')")
Also, look at readBytes.
I'm assuming something like this would work.
Address = "Put address here"
Previous = readBytes(Address, length of string -- if the length is always different, then put the maximum length it gets to.)
while true do
Current = readBytes(Address, length of string -- what I said earlier)
if Previous ~= Current then
local file = io.open("C:\\Users\\Taco\\Log.lua", "a")
file:write(Current)
end
Previous = Current
T = os.time()
repeat until T == os.time() - 1
end
I'm sorry if the code is buggy, inefficient or not working -- even if it doesn't work, it shows what I believe is the most easy way to do what you are trying to do.

[Dark Byte]

http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=550108

[booingthetroll]

Even though it's unneeded, I just noticed that I put what would delay the loop out of the correct scope, that being the loop although now it does not matter.