Program to 'hack' internal workings of another program?
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From: Kabuki Armadillo on 27 Jan 2010 12:06 A cryptic subject heading I know, but I wasn't sure what the name for it was... My challenge: I want to hack essentialPIM's categories and change them to something more meaningful to me. Only the Pro version offers this capability. However, I seem to recall many years ago, there were programs that would let you open the executable of another program and edit any words you could find within it. Thus, you were able to change certain button labels, etc of the program to ones that you wanted and the program would still function. IIRC, it was a bit of a hit or miss thing -- you had to make sure the new description had the same number of letters and/or spaces as the old description for example, otherwise the program might not work. Sound familiar? M
From: Kabuki Armadillo on 27 Jan 2010 12:21 "Kabuki Armadillo" <kabuki.armadillo(a)geemail.com> wrote in message news:%o_7n.5074$1m3.2244(a)newsfe11.iad... >A cryptic subject heading I know, but I wasn't sure what the name for it >was... > > My challenge: > I want to hack essentialPIM's categories and change them to something more > meaningful to me. Only the Pro version offers this capability. (Blushes...) Figured this out. Just open the language file in a text editor and edit the names there. Disregard my request... M
From: Craig on 27 Jan 2010 12:31 On 01/27/2010 09:21 AM, Kabuki Armadillo wrote: > "Kabuki Armadillo" <kabuki.armadillo(a)geemail.com> wrote in message > news:%o_7n.5074$1m3.2244(a)newsfe11.iad... >> A cryptic subject heading I know, but I wasn't sure what the name for >> it was... >> >> My challenge: >> I want to hack essentialPIM's categories and change them to something >> more meaningful to me. Only the Pro version offers this capability. > > > (Blushes...) Figured this out. Just open the language file in a text > editor and edit the names there. > > Disregard my request... > Hey; Don't blush too deeply. /I/ learned from your post. & I'll bet I wasn't the only one. One last thing.... Hacker! -- -Craig
From: Caesar Romano on 27 Jan 2010 12:50 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:31:48 -0800, Craig <netburgher(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote Re Re: Program to 'hack' internal workings of another program?: >Hey; > >Don't blush too deeply. /I/ learned from your post. & I'll bet I >wasn't the only one. +1 on that. -- Work is the curse of the drinking class.
From: B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson on 27 Jan 2010 14:48
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:21:13 -0800, Kabuki Armadillo wrote: >> I want to hack essentialPIM's categories and change them to something more >> meaningful to me. Only the Pro version offers this capability. > > (Blushes...) Figured this out. Just open the language file in a text editor > and edit the names there. In your OP you mentioned editing the executable. Don't use a *text* editor for this task, unless you know it works save for /binary editing/. (Few are.) Use a hex-editor (like FrHed or HxD) or even better a resource editor (like the one from Angus Johnson) for such tasks. If after editing the program complains, you may need to also adjust the PE checksum. BeAr -- =========================================================================== = What do you mean with: "Perfection is always an illusion"? = ===============================================================--(Oops!)=== |