getting the color of a pixel
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Mar 16 22:00:49 EDT 2008
Colin Holgate wrote:
> For something I'm trying, I want to know the color of a specified pixel
> on the card. I haven't yet found a built in function for that, so I made
> one:
>
> function getPixel x,y
> put the screenMouseLoc into ml
> set the screenMouseLoc to x+the left of this stack,y+the top of this
> stack
> put the mouseColor into mc
> set the screenMouseLoc to ml
> return mc
> end getPixel
>
> It works really well, and quickly, so I can carry on with what I'm
> trying. Was there a built in way that I should have found in the help?
I asked Scott Raney for a function like that many years ago, and he
replied that I should do it exactly as you are doing it now. So I guess
that's the officially sanctioned method.
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