Help/Support CSCI patcher help: working with Writedata.h header

de2ndlaw · July 20, 2015

I am trying to have a ~~hex~~ (edit: int) value entered by the end user into a text box defined by psedittextcell in a referenced plist, to be used as a reference to replace an original hex at a certain predefined offset, looking like this:

Writedata (0xOFFSET, 0x"hex value from text box");

I have tried defining a string in advance that extracts the input and formats it as 0x"8 digit hex", as that is what I want the length of the hex to be (4 bytes). I have the following code:

NSDictionary *iosgods = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:PLIST_PATH];

NSString *ItemID = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"0x%08X",[[iosgods objectForKey:@"kItemID"] intValue]];

writeData(0x377314, ItemID);

But this returns an error during compilation saying that the candidate function is not viable, no known conversion from "NSString*" to 'unsigned int' for 2nd argument:

bool writeData (vm_address_t offset, unsigned int data) {

1 error generated.

Could anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrongly? Thank you in advance!

Updated July 20, 2015 by de2ndlaw

DuIslingr · July 20, 2015

This is because writedata is not setup to convert strings to hex.

de2ndlaw · July 20, 2015

This is because writedata is not setup to convert strings to hex.

I see. In that case, could you please suggest a way for me to go about doing this? I have also tried

writeData(0x377314, [iosgods objectForKey:@"kItemID"] intValue]);

And entered an integer inside instead, but the app crashes, and I believe this is because the hex was not properly formatted into 16 bit little endian, which is what I would like it to be.