hello everyone

Need a little help here since I'm so close to pulling out my hair

A previous student in my lab wrote a program. This program is updating a box within itself to one of 4 possible pictures.

Now I am writing a program, however, I also need access to this information. Unfortunately, our previous student did not write a makefile, or readme instructing us on how to compile or run his project

So now we are left with only his Executable and are trying to obtain that information from his program. Is there some way to modify/change his program so that it writes to some file the same information it is updating so that our program also has access to it.

thanks in advance for any tips or help you might have!

If the source is there, it's probably not that much of a puzzle to compile. At the moment, your post is a little vague, so I have no idea even where to start. If there's no sensitive info, uploading source or EXE could help a great amount.

The source is hundreds of Matlab and C++ files.

The program reads emg signals from a human arm and shows a picture showing what position your hand is in.

Here is an image of his program. The upper right hand corner is the part I'm interested. When his program runs it changes to display one of 5 possible pictures.



Here are the possible pictures. I included all of them together. But when his program runs, only one is displayed in the box depending on what position the persons hand is in.



Really, the information I want is simple. When his arm shows the "Spherical Grasp" picture, I need the number 0 written to a file. When it shows "Key", I need the number 1 written to some file. "Cylindrical" should have 2 written to same file, and the "Disk" picture should write 4 to some file. thats it!!

we've tried to contact the previous student but his contact info is out of date. otherwise it would be trivial to change his source, recompile and we'd be done

thanks again for any help(soory for the size of the images!)

Every program has about dialog commonly.
And this one too: "Help" submenu "About" must be in.
Patching, we put your code instead BUT there is nothing to work with as ou gave pics only.

informal: i found board time is not summer-time set

I don't understand what you're saying. The "About" menu only has our lab name and the student's name.

could anyone else help me with my problem?

maybe yçou can find the stundent, and ask him the source code.
if you still have the source code, then, try to compile it.
and then, try to modify it.

under windows, there is a getpixel fucntion, maybe you can temporarily use it as a capture of the image in the rectangle.

We have the source code and it is a tangled mess. We've tried for the past month to compile/link all the Matlab and C++ files into the final executable with no success.

I've tried opening the executable with Ollydbg to check when it's updating the box with the pictures, but can't seem to locate the specific lines. Also, I wouldn't know how to change it so that it writes to some text file EVEN if I did find the right lines.

Any help or other ideas?

Are the images included inside the executable? If not you could hook CreateFile and when you detect that one of the images is about to be opened then you execute your desired actions.

FireAndIce, could you upload an executive

Or rather, an executable.

You can easily enumerate the windows and hook (subclass)
the control to filter its messages and handle them accordingly.
The child ID is hard-coded so once you know it, it remains.

disk grasp looks more like that:

But only if you are left-handed.

only if you are right handed, don't forget you draw with right hand, and use left hand like a model.

for me it's not a problem, i can do anything with both hands, but not draw or write, even with Gimp...

???

if you can't draw, i can dig that. i can't draw either.

but you can't write? oh my !

edfed can draw, did you not see this.