ColorAtScreenLoc Function

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Ray,

This function doesn't involve moving the mouse cursor.

function screenlocColor
    put the screenloc into myLoc
    add 31 to item 1 of myLoc
    add 31 to item 2 of myLoc
    put (the screenLoc),myLoc into myRect
    export snapshot from rectangle myRect to myPixels as PNG
    set the text of the templateImage to myPixels
    put char 1 to 4 of the imageData of the templateImage into myPixel
    return charToNum(char 2 of myPixel), \
      charToNum(char 3 of myPixel),charToNum(char 4 of myPixel)
    reset the templateImage
end screenlocColor

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On 1/21/2014 18:28, Ray wrote:
> Anybody know of a function which returns the color of the screen at a
> given location?  Simply pass it a point and get the color of that pixel,
> kind of like a combination of the mouseColor function and the
> controlAtScreenLoc function.  I'd be happy if it only worked for points
> on Livecode stacks.  I've tried 'click at loc [myPoint] and then getting
> the mouseColor but it doesn't work.