ed1chandler wrote: ↑20 May 2016, 09:34
Want to make sure I'm understanding use case and usage:
1) Download script and run it. This pops up the "Catch Image To Text And Find Text Tool" box with "Catch", "Test", and "Copy" buttons.
2) Click the "Catch" button and the cursor is accompanied by a transparent red box.
3) Move the red box over the text you want to search for and click, then move the box more than 100 px in any direction to trigger capture.
4) This brings up the "Catch Image To Text" box with a magnified view of the captured text.
5) The lower left portion of that GUI has a series of "trimming" buttons, used to trim the edges of the captured region. I'm not sure what the abbreviations are supposed to stand for, but it appears that "LD" trims one pixel from the left edge, "LD3" trims three pixels, and the other buttons do the same for "up", "down", and "right." Use those buttons to trim the region down to what you really want to search for.
6) Click somewhere on the magnified capture to select a pixel with the color you want to use for matching. When you do, the text box next to the "Color2Two" button will populate with the hex value of the color corresponding with the pixel you chose.
It appears there are two modes: color and greyscale. If you want to use color, it appears to go something like this:
7a) After selecting a pixel (step 6), if you click the "Color2Two" button, it appears to convert the magnified image into a two-tone version where all pixels of the selected color are converted to black and all other pixels are converted to white.
And if you want to use greyscale, it goes something like this:
7b) After selecting a pixel (step 6), if you click the "Gray2Two" button, it appears to make a "best guess" at a threshold, then convert the magnified image into a two-tone black/white version where all pixels on one side of the threshold are black and all others are white. It also appears that you can change the threshold and click the button again if you want to adjust the program's guess.
8) Once you've got the two-tone image you want, click the "Ok" button. This returns a GUI with a "Text=..." block of text and a related function call. You can click the "Test" button to test that the search will actually find what you're looking for, then click the "Copy" button to copy the text block and the related function call to the clipboard. The "Exchange" button will negate the image and the "Load" button will reload the original capture.
9) Copy that block of text and the function call into the script from which the search will be run ... and be sure the script can "see" the FindText() function.
10) Modify and enjoy.
What I'm *not* quite following is how to modify the function parameters. The "w" and "h" parameters say that they're "offsets" but what does that *mean*? (i.e. What's the effect of changing them?) The default is 150, but the capture tool seeds these to 150000. What is this changing?