? How to get the pixel color without relying on mouseColor

[Sparticus Zarris]

It seems unusual that there is a function to get the color of 
the pixel under the mouse, but no function to get the color 
of an arbitrary pixel.

I'm _sure_ there must be something like:

get the color of pixel 240,360

which would put the triplet "0,0,0" into it, if (240,360) is a 
black pixel, or "255,255,255" into it if (240,360) is a white 
pixel.


Please, don't tell me to write a function like this:

function convolutedGetPixelColor  aPoint
  set the screenMouseLoc to aPoint
  get the mouseColor

  return it

end convolutedGetPixelColor


Why would this be stupid?  Obviously, because if I need to 
iterated over a _Large_ range of pixels, the user might get 
worried something had gone wrong, and bump/wiggle his 
cursor to see if the computer had frozen.

Having wiggled the cursor, he just set the mouseLoc to a 
different Loc halfway through my giant repeat loop that 
checks all the pixels.

So, please tell me I'm missing some function that does 
"the Right Thing", and not that mouseColor & 
screenMouseLoc is the _wonderful_ "Meta" way of doing it.
 
 
 
Sparticus Zarris
1208 Clark Street
New Albany, Indiana  47150
spartics at aye.net
(812) 944-1042  phone

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