OpenRCE Blog Entry

Steve Micallef (stevem) <steve

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Saturday, April 18 2009 18:18.01 CDT

It's long overdue, but I'll be updating the IDA Plugin Writing Tutorial over the next few weeks, bringing it up to date for IDA Pro 5.4.

I'm still scoping out the amount of work required, but I suspect that there may be only minor changes here and there, plus some new functionality worth covering.

If there is anything in particular that people would like to see covered in the tutorial that was missing or lacked detail in the first version, please let me know.

memger	Posted: Monday, April 20 2009 14:59.42 CDT
Some stuff about how to draw custom graphs using IDA API would be great :)

winndy	Posted: Tuesday, April 21 2009 01:47.31 CDT
UI programing. And I expect to see tutorials about writing custom loaderd and custom processors ( those cann't be called IDA plugins,but I wanna to read something about that).

stevem	Posted: Tuesday, April 21 2009 20:51.28 CDT
Don't know about expanding scope to cover loaders and processors, but I'll have a look at the graphing and see how I go.

gera

Posted: Tuesday, April 21 2009 22:37.48 CDT

In idasdk you can find 3 examples for changing the graphs. Although the last one is empty.

idasdk/plugins/ugraph:
It demonstrates how to create a graph viewer with an aribtrary graph.

idasdk/plugins/ugraph2:
It demonstrates how to modify ida graphs on the fly.
This plugin combines sequential nodes into one.
It is fully automatic.

idasdk/plugins/ugraph3:
It demonstrates how to generate ida graphs for arbitrary ranges.

but in my version of the sdk (just downloaded a few days ago) ugraph3 doesn't look it does much... but I may be wrong

zhzhtst	Posted: Saturday, May 9 2009 03:47.19 CDT
more samples will be better.

Nadya	Posted: Tuesday, May 19 2009 08:32.25 CDT
thanks Steve for your tutorial it's awesome, superb job! I just can't wait to read v1.1;)

stevem	Posted: Thursday, May 21 2009 06:17.44 CDT
Apologies for the delay.. should be ready in a couple of days. There hasn't been much to cover in this new tutorial, you can expect a few minor updates and an additional plug-in example. Graphs will have to wait until v1.2 ;)