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Aquatic
February 21st, 2004, 21:20
I am looking for a list of all well-known string comparing APIS.

Why? Well because sometimes the program don't use GetWindowTexta or GetDlgItemTexta, or even ComparestringA or ComparestringW.

Thanks.
doug
February 21st, 2004, 22:34
you are mixing up things:

GetWindowTexta & GetDlgItemTexta are not comparison functions.

Furthermore, even if you had the most complete list of string compare functions, strings can be compared without calling any API at all.

(btw you can also get the text by sending the WM_GETTEXT window message, google that, plenty of info on it)
Aquatic
February 21st, 2004, 23:02
I know they're not compare functions, I just meant any function involving checking a string.

& Thanks for info.
evlncrn8
February 22nd, 2004, 02:12
Quote:
[Originally Posted by Aquatic]I know they're not compare functions, I just meant any function involving checking a string.

& Thanks for info.


lstrcmp, lstrcmpi etc etc
Kayaker
February 22nd, 2004, 03:19
The PSDK should be your best friend here... Plus there's a bunch of string handling functions if Shlwapi.dll is used.
Aquatic
February 22nd, 2004, 07:08
Quote:
[Originally Posted by Kayaker]The PSDK should be your best friend here... Plus there's a bunch of string handling functions if Shlwapi.dll is used.


Hello.

Google gave me this:

Quote:

PowerSDK is a development framework for Macromedia Flash. The framework allows libraries of code to be imported into the Flash Player at runtime. Once these libraries are loaded, they can be used with an application as needed. The current release provides support for Flash 5 and 6 Players with identical functionality on each version.


*head explodes*
ZaiRoN
February 22nd, 2004, 07:26
Quote:
Google gave me this:
As always happen, Google gave you a lot of entries; then you have to choose the right one. "Platform SDK" is what you need...

Zai
Solomon
February 22nd, 2004, 07:56
Progs written with Delphi/BCB never call GetWindowText/GetDlgItemText to get text input from editboxes.

If you search "strcmp" in VCL source code of "system.pas", you will get some string comparison functions(not M$ API) implemented by Borland. IDA can identify these functions if you have appropriate sig files.