Limit area of interest to coordinates does not work properly

TheBotfather · **Thanked:** 0 time(s) **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2017 4:32 pm

Hello,
I am not sure if this is intended or not. But I spent forever this morning fxxg with my code not understanding why it would not work. Limit area of interest to coordinates does not work with find.colors, it only seems to work with pixel.patterns and possibly images, haven't bothered checking.

I am trying to monitor single pixel lines that are rendered on diagonals meaning I cannot use pixel.patterns. the workaround for now is like 50 single co-ordinate monitors linked logically but holy hell it is annoying.

Wondering if it's doable in some of the next updates,
Cheers!

TheBotfather · **Thanked:** 0 time(s) **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2017 4:50 pm

following more testing I am not even sure pixel.patterns works all the time now.

I limit the screen to a few pixels, do a large pattern check and it almost always finds a pattern

burak476 · **Thanked:** 0 time(s) **Posted:** Thu Jun 15, 2017 6:45 pm

Most of the bots here rather work with a SINGLE pixel check rather than an area/pattern check.

Watch your language btw.

Syrifina · **Thanked:** 0 time(s) **Posted:** Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:46 am

Post your script and I'll take a look at it.

TheBotfather · **Thanked:** 0 time(s) **Posted:** Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:27 am

Code:

 begin
     Color.Limit area of interest to coordinates("5", "5", "1", "100")
     if  Color.Pixel pattern can be located on screen("167,75,0,-1,-1,255,0,0", "0")
          begin
               Function.Execute("do stuff")
          end
end

Anything like this or similar have not worked for me.

Syrifina · **Thanked:** 1 time(s) **Posted:** Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:25 pm

That should work; just tested it and it worked fine for me. I ran some tests using this script:

Code:

 begin
     // Color.Limit area of interest to coordinates("50", "50", "50", "100")
     if  Color.Pixel pattern can be located on screen("66,103,178,198,46,205,0,0", "0")
          begin
               Mouse.Move to coordinate("1541", "998")
          end
 end

I limited the area of interest to the upper left of the screen and chose a pixel pattern in the lower right of my screen.

I ran it with and without "limit area of interest" commented out.
When it was commented out, it found the pixel pattern and moved the mouse.
When uncommented, it would not find the pixel pattern and did nothing as intended.

I also ran tests from the main screen by saving/closing the macro so that I could view the execution log each time. I didn't notice anything other than intended but perhaps you should try that to see where the script is not acting as intended.

Perhaps it's the color set/pixel pattern your using. I would try your script with a different (more obvious) pattern to ensure the script is working before going back to those diagonal lines your talking about...or post screenshots of the actual elements your trying to detect so I could run tests on those.

TheBotfather · **Thanked:** 0 time(s) **Posted:** Sun Jun 18, 2017 1:36 pm

Syrifina wrote:

That should work; just tested it and it worked fine for me. I ran some tests using this script:

Code:

 begin
     // Color.Limit area of interest to coordinates("50", "50", "50", "100")
     if  Color.Pixel pattern can be located on screen("66,103,178,198,46,205,0,0", "0")
          begin
               Mouse.Move to coordinate("1541", "998")
          end
 end

I limited the area of interest to the upper left of the screen and chose a pixel pattern in the lower right of my screen.

I ran it with and without "limit area of interest" commented out.
When it was commented out, it found the pixel pattern and moved the mouse.
When uncommented, it would not find the pixel pattern and did nothing as intended.

I also ran tests from the main screen by saving/closing the macro so that I could view the execution log each time. I didn't notice anything other than intended but perhaps you should try that to see where the script is not acting as intended.

Perhaps it's the color set/pixel pattern your using. I would try your script with a different (more obvious) pattern to ensure the script is working before going back to those diagonal lines your talking about...or post screenshots of the actual elements your trying to detect so I could run tests on those.

Spent the morning playing with it some more. Despite everything I tried it would not work, so I reinstalled BE completely and what do you know, it works

I'm still not sure why it stopped working though when my 5000+ line macro uses almost every other command in BE and always ran fine.
Thank you for taking the time to respond

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Limit area of interest to coordinates does not work properly