Ok maybe if I tell you guys what I'm trying to do it'll be easier for you guys to tell me what's the intelligent aproach.
I've got this full screen game that I play through the internet. My problem is that I need to alt-tab so I can reply to msn.
I've found that sniffing my own packets I can send msgs to people from inside the game. If I just say something like "test@test.com: hey buddy" inside the game and catch the string in the outgoing packet I could isolate the msg with RegExp and whatnot and send it to the person I wanted to through msn plus script. Now the reverse is turning out to be quite difficult. The server (or the other player) sends messages in the same fashion but I couldn't send a packet to the port of the game.
I could only see two ways of doing this: 1 - messing with the incoming packets (first guess was just sendin my own packets to the port and now through a proxy) 2 - messing with the screen and directx so I could have a box or alert with the messages.
I thought going through the packets would be easier but maybe I'm wrong.
What do you guys think?
If you don't mind, please add me on msn so I can pick your brains
addy is pentadieno at yahoo dot com
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