Various fixes

Chapter10_ResponsiveHacks/main-responsiveHacks.cpp

@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ DWORD WINAPI exampleThread(LPVOID lpParam)
 	auto window = FindWindowA(NULL, "Chapter10 Input Example");
 	typeStringWithSendMessage(window, "Typing using SendMessage()!\rEffectively the same, but more powerful :-)\r\r");
 
+	std::cout << std::endl << std::endl << "DONE! you can close this now!" << std::endl;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 

Chapter11_SearchAlgorithms/Chapter11_SearchAlgorithms.cpp

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ public:
     }
     void updateScore(int endx, int endy)
     {
-		this->score = g + heuristic(endx, endy) * TILE_COST;
+		auto h = this->heuristic(endx, endy) * TILE_COST;
+		this->score = g + h;
     }
 	AStarNodePtr getCopy()
 	{

Chapter6_AccessingMemory/main-accessingMemory.cpp

@@ -123,19 +123,31 @@ DWORD getMyBaseAddressFS()
 	return newBase;
 }
 
-DWORD getRemoteBaseAddress(HANDLE Process)
+DWORD getRemoteBaseAddress(HANDLE process)
 {
-	LPVOID TIB;
-	__asm
-	{
-		MOV EAX, DWORD PTR FS:[0x18]
-		ADD EAX, 0x30
-		MOV TIB, EAX
-	}
-	// read 0x30 bytes past _the_game's_ TIB to get the PEB
-	DWORD PEB = readMemoryAPI<DWORD>(Process, TIB);
-	// read 0x8 bytes past _the_game's_ PEB to get the base
-	return readMemoryAPI<DWORD>(Process, (LPVOID)(PEB + 0x08));
+
+	DWORD newBase;
+	// get the address of kernel32.dll
+	HMODULE k32 = GetModuleHandleA("kernel32.dll");
+
+	// get the address of GetModuleHandle()
+	LPVOID funcAdr = GetProcAddress(k32, "GetModuleHandleA");
+
+	if (!funcAdr)
+		funcAdr = GetProcAddress(k32, "GetModuleHandleW");
+	// create the thread
+	HANDLE thread = CreateRemoteThread(process, NULL, NULL, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)funcAdr, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+
+	// let the thread finish
+	WaitForSingleObject(thread, INFINITE);
+
+	// get the exit code
+	GetExitCodeThread(thread, &newBase);
+
+	// clean up the thread handle
+	CloseHandle(thread);
+
+	return newBase;
 }
 
 void printMyBaseAddresses(HANDLE Process)

Chapter8_AdobeAirHook/ExecutableModule.cpp

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ExecutableModule::~ExecutableModule(void)
 DWORD ExecutableModule::findPattern(const char* pattern, unsigned int patternLength, unsigned int occurance)
 {
 	unsigned int ocur = 0;
-	for (DWORD adr = this->base; adr < this->base + this->size - patternLength; adr++)
+	for (DWORD adr = this->base; adr <= this->base + this->size - patternLength; adr++)
 	{
 
 		if (memcmp((LPVOID)pattern, (LPVOID)adr, patternLength) == 0)