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Reading Trigger Action Parameters
May 28 2014, 5:50 pm
By: jjf28  

May 28 2014, 5:50 pm jjf28 Post #1

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Say I wanted to go about making my own actions by redirecting the trigger action function pointers to my own code, how would I get the action's parameters?

Ideally: is there a pointer to the current action somewhere?



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May 28 2014, 9:58 pm trgk Post #2



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Say I wanted to go about making my own actions by redirecting the trigger action function pointers to my own code, how would I get the action's parameters?

Ideally: is there a pointer to the current action somewhere?

Pointer to trigger action is passed by register ecx when trigger action is called. (thiscall)

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May 28 2014, 10:18 pm jjf28 Post #3

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thanks



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May 30 2014, 7:15 am TF- Post #4

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