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Dublicate process and dynamic name

 
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pekeltje
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:11 am    Post subject: Dublicate process and dynamic name Reply with quote
Hello,

I want to cheat on a online flash game.
The problem is that there are 2 processes with the same name, and the process has a version number in it that might change.

Its called: FlashPlayerPlugin_13_0_0_214

Is there a way to use something like:
openProcess("FlashPlayerPlugin*.exe")

And select the one with highest memory usage.

Im new to this.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can use 'getProcesslist' to obtain a list of all running processes in a list of strings.

Here's an example of getting a partial match:
Code:

function getProcessByPartialName(name)
    local procNames = createStringlist();
    getProcessList(procNames);

    for x = 0, procNames:getCount() - 1 do
        local procInfo = { procNames[x]:match('([%a%d]+)-(.*)') };

        if (procInfo[2]:lower():find(name:lower(), nil, true) ~= nil) then
           return procInfo[1], procInfo[2];
        end
    end

    return nil;
end


Returns two values, the first is the process id, the second is the name.
If no process is found with the matching part, it will return nil.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Atom0s, it does not return physical memory.
That's why tasklist could be better.
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