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[dcurran]

The basic idea of this program is to be able to do an ImageSearch on the cursor.

For some reason the transparency is not working for ImageSearch.

I have taken a screenshot of the cursor for arrow.png and then turned the background red so that I can search for the arrow on any background.

The problem is that I get an "Image Found" message only when the arrow is on the original background that I took the screenshot with, no other backgrounds match.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong with ImageSearch? I have tried increasing the values of *n but that really does nothing.

The image I am searching for is:


ScreenCapture.ahk comes from http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic18146.html

The program I am using:

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[dcurran]

The change to including the % sign around the system variables did not result in a change in the behavior.

Is there something else I might be missing? Am I handling transparency incorrectly?

[closed]

Just some thoughts ...........

If you look at the capturescreen.ahk program ( excellent stuff btw!!!) you can see that the capture cursor seems to be a separate function.

From what i can make of it ( not much knowledge with drawing) is that the cursor is a separate image created from a bitmap and then draw on the screenshot if required if so you could draw it on a black(red?) background (instead of the screenshot )and use the imagesearch on that.

It loads the cursor bitmap so maybe yould compare this bitmap without creating an image to an array of cursor bitmaps.That would speed things up a bit.

There is also some "getcursorinfo" in the dll maybe you can extract info from it that is unique to the cursor you want to identify.

I also played around with the x and y of the cursor and you can position it very easily over the startbutton so that the background will always be the same for the imagesearch.