Hi Everyone,
Before I start astounding everyone with my probably brilliantly
stupid question, i'd just like to say that i openly admit I am
terrible at all programming languages, and though I have dabbled in
order to write small tools in C++ and Visual Basic i have never WANTED
to learn any language particularly.
As part of my upcomming Uni course a basic understanding of Java is
required and to peak my interest a good friend, who knows I learn
quickest by taking things apart gave me a small web based java
application/game thing to try and solve - it's basically a 4-digit
combination lock. I have been banging my head against a brick wall
trying to figure this out and have finally decided to seek a bit of
advice.
I have worked out that Java stores .class files in it's own JAR
archives in a cache folder, and have dissassembled the class files to
see what the applet is doing. To the best of my ability it looks as
though each mouse click randomly generates a number in each "cell" (?)
of an array. The only way I can see of working the combination out is
to output the contents of the array in some format.
I have attempted to do this by watching the justsched (sp?)
application in a debugger application (OllyDbg) but can't for the life
of me work out where the variables are being stored.
Any help or advice anyone can give that would help me would be
greatly appreciated, I've never spent so much of my time looking at
the same 2 pages of code and i'm beginning to fear for my sanity.
Cheers
Barblade |
