Another question about masm register displaying

[kittmaster]

Originally Posted by Kerlingen

What are you using as "ctrl_str" ?

It also seems you don't write to valEAX, valEBX, valECX or valEDX after you calculated it in the serial loop.

What is "not working as desired" ?

For now those are commented out, I ripped them from the masm forum when I was searching for a method to get the ebx register hex data to my wsprintf dialog.

In the screen shot after the these are typically the commands that would be used to take the serial generator and display it in the keygen output box. The final answer is stored in hex in the ebx register and I want that data to be push to the output dialogbox text.

This is the commands as I figured them:

invoke wsprintf, addr tempbuffer,  addr decimalformat, eax                                     ; write decimal value of edx 

invoke SetDlgItemTextA,handle,IDC_SERIAL, addr genedserial ; display serial

[kittmaster]

I found my solution, thanks to those who responded:

This is what it was:

decimalformat           db "%d",0

should be something like

"%0Xh",00h

I found that this is almost right > it adds an h to the string value so I adjusted it like

should be

"%0X",00h

this is what nailed it. Should have realized that the call to the string is necessary and then needs a decision as to what TYPE of output it should be. So I've adjusted my models to include a program switch that will display both if needed.

Thanks for this...........Life saver!!

Chris