Skin and Armadillo

Xtreme SkinFramework doesn't work with Armadillo protection when statically linked. What can be done to make it work?

In any case I have made workaround and it works fine with Armadillo and Xtreme Skin statically linked

How come Kite can get it to work and nobody else can.  We have the same basic problems, that is we use both Unicode and Armadillo.

It was really difficult to make it work. I can give you a hint. Unicows and Armadillo works in almost the same way, right, but not the same!!! I do not use Unicows in my projects now because Xtreme is not support it and I cannot skip Armadillo also because of Xtreme.

First, when you use Armadillo you have wrong IMAGE_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR because of protection and second, your functions like GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA
will always point to Armadillo functions, not Xtreme after LoadSkin

I have written a small DLL with stubs for functions GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA, LoadLibraryW and so on and link it in Unicows way, so that after compiling it uses my functions, not Armadillo and not Xtreme, and not system functions. But now I can do what I want with this DLLs. And after loading skin I put in this stubs pointers to Xtreme functions OnHookGetProcAddress and so on. It seems all works fine.

After all of this you can find that now you will not able to load ArmAccess.dll, because LoadLibrary now is ours. But according to Armadillo forum you can know that you can use GetModuleHandle(NULL) instead of calling LoadLibrary. And for GetProcAddress (note just for ArmAccess.dll functions) you can use:

DWORD GetProcAddressA(HINSTANCE hInst, const char *fnname) {
   typedef DWORD (__stdcall *GetProcAddressAFn)(HMODULE, LPCSTR);

   char tmp[256]="";
   DWORD addr;
   GetEnvironmentVariableA("GetProcAddressA", tmp, 256);
   addr=atol(tmp);
   if (addr!=0) {
      GetProcAddressAFn GPA=(GetProcAddressAFn)(addr);
      return GPA(hInst, fnname);
   } else return 0;
};

We talk about skin here. And problem that all three things(Armadillo, Xtreme, Unicows) work almost in the same way. So the solution is how connect them in right way. Xtreme can work with Armadillo and Unicows and without skin, why not? And why you think that hook of Unicows impossible? I had working solution with Unicows and first version of Xtreme Skin.