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[Scratch]

The strength and popularity of AHK, as it name suggests, is in its Hot Eventtriggers in response to keycombinations, mousemovements etc.

Another key feature we all love is imagesearch,

...But you can't execute imagesearches out of order or have it start threads asynchronously unless you are pretty experienced with interrupt timers and then you have to pay much attention to the devil in the details / write code to tie up the loose threads/timers

And thus, most people dealing with lots of dynamic graphics, such as in gamescripts, write serial code with consecutive imagesearches and a whole tree of IF...ELSE branches/flow control to deal with the occurences/exceptions/combinations of searched images.

As the amount of searched images and testing for combined occurences on screen grows, the required branch tree code tends to grow exponentially and more prone to errors, not catching all exceptions or for some reason getting stuck at the wrong branch.

Anyway a lot of code to write and even more to debug, so why not offer some kind of Hotpic support and do away with all this overhead?

For example:

[MasterFocus]

I completely disagree. There are fine methods to reduce your code if it looks like a monster that's about to eat you. Also, many times, "dealing with timers and the details" is a matter of reading the manual and, most importantly, practicing. Finally, searching for pixels/images endlessly would be the worst possible solution if you need anything else to be done meanwhile.
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