Find screen pixel color without screenMouseLoc

Ops ops at myesa.com
Thu Jan 29 04:07:20 EST 2004


Got it working, thank you Sir.  My desktop icons flicker and it is quite 
slow...I have read in the archives about icons "winking" out...this is 
happening to me too.  I'll have to evaluate the impact on my app, but 
thank you for the answer Dar!!

Dar Scott wrote:

> 
> On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 05:56 PM, Ops wrote:
> 
>> I've searched, and cannot find an answer to this question.  Can I find 
>> the color of a particular pixel of a (windows) screen without having 
>> to change the screenMouseLoc (and then using mouseColor).  Doing it 
>> that way is annoying and confusing to my users when the pointer moves 
>> "for no reason" (according to their perception)..
> 
> 
> export the screen to an invisible image (or to a variable and then to 
> image).  Get the imageData.  Get the pixel.
> 
> Dar Scott
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