Re-writing the connection method

[Furious]

How much effort would it take for someone ( with experience ) to re-write the connection method of a bot from local hashing to BNLS? ( In C++ )

Sorry if it's a dumb question, programming isn't my thing.  :-\

[Newby]

With experience? Lots of experience? Not much time. Heh.

[Furious]

Anyone up for it?  It's actually warz's bot.

Here's his little write-up:

battle.net channel moderation client
This is a quick and simple battle.net 'op' channel moderation client. Supports local hashing via BNCSutil, and has oper.dll-style flagging. This is a console application, only. There is an option hide-console setting, to allow the bot to be hidden from view. This project does not support the lockdown era checkrevision, and is not being updated

Before I left BNET last time ( Before the 1.13 patch some time ) I was using this and I really enjoyed it.  I came back and idle in a friends channel now, but SphtBot3 isn't going to cut it with the amount of activity the channel gets.

[Warrior]

How much effort would it take for someone ( with experience ) to re-write the connection method of a bot from local hashing to BNLS? ( In C++ )

Sorry if it's a dumb question, programming isn't my thing.  :-\

Depends on the level of abstraction they put over their Battle.net code. If they intertwined it heavily with the hashing stuff then it could become very tedious for an inexperienced programmer.

I'd start by understanding his current code, what he does locally to retrieve the values he sends to Battle.net. Then replace that with BNLS values returned from BNLS packets.

[MyndFyre]

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I'd start by understanding his current code, what he does locally to retrieve the values he sends to Battle.net. Then replace that with BNLS values returned from BNLS packets.

One thing that might be very effective and helpful for this task would be to draw.  Use Visio or something else, but draw out how the procedures work and depend on one another.  Draw the flow of the logic from step-to-step.  That's excellent!

[warz]

Any luck? :P

[Joe]

I was actually about to sit down and do this to JavaOp. :P