ImageSearchUDF v3.5

Works nicely. Never got it to work in vmware for some reason. Wrote my script on my own machine which worked fine. As soon as I try it on vmware workstation 15, I just get "! Dll not found or Call Dll error !".

I've verified the location of the dll. Also tried compiling as a x86 exe to try that dll. Strange. Guess it checks video memory or something which differs from a physical computer.

Adding a consolewrite on @error after the dllcall just gives me code 1, which according to dllcall help is

1 = unable to use the DLL file,

Edited January 29, 2020 by Turranius

On 1/30/2020 at 1:29 AM, Turranius said:

Works nicely. Never got it to work in vmware for some reason. Wrote my script on my own machine which worked fine. As soon as I try it on vmware workstation 15, I just get "! Dll not found or Call Dll error !".

I've verified the location of the dll. Also tried compiling as a x86 exe to try that dll. Strange. Guess it checks video memory or something which differs from a physical computer.

Adding a consolewrite on @error after the dllcall just gives me code 1, which according to dllcall help is

1 = unable to use the DLL file,

- The problem has been corrected!

 

! Dll not found or Call Dll error !

How do I fix this?

reDownload new version!

Same issue with error but only on a fresh Win10 machine.

! Dll not found or Call Dll error !

The script works just fine on an existing Win10 computer but if you run this on a fresh installed Win10 machine 32 or 64bit this is the error you get.  Same script, same files, same locations.  There is clearly some kind of pre-requisite to use the DLL Call.  If there is any debug method I can provide this information.

Edited November 27, 2020 by vulcan4d

Same issue with vulcan4d

Tried these things below

• Make sure you use my UDF and dll. => Using version updated January 31, 2020
• Have you tried disabling your antivirus before running? => Yes
• Did you test the example script? => Testing "_ImageSearch_Sample.au3"
• Have you set Screen Scale and layout = 100%? => Yes, scale 100% at 1920*1080
• Have you installed the display driver? => Yes, using latest driver for rx570

 

Image capture and save successfully then failed at function  DllCall(), result return = 0

Below is console log

>"D:\auto\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\autoit3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "D:\auto\AutoIT_ImageSearch\_ImageSearch_Sample.au3"    
--\\ ImageSearch by TRONG.LIVE //--  OSArch : X64 // AutoIT ver: 3.3.14.5 x86
-- WorkingDir      : D:\auto\AutoIT_ImageSearch
-- ScriptFullPath  : D:\auto\AutoIT_ImageSearch\_ImageSearch_Sample.au3
-- ImageSearchDLL  : D:\auto\AutoIT_ImageSearch\_ImageSearch_DLL\_ImageSearch.dll (17kb)
-- ScreenCapture   : X1=1042 Y1=342 X2=1095 Y2=383
! Search for images: D:\auto\AutoIT_ImageSearch\example.bmp
! Searching on the screen ...
! Dll not found or Call Dll error !
! Dll not found or Call Dll error !
! Dll not found or Call Dll error !
! Dll not found or Call Dll error !
! Dll not found or Call Dll error !
! Dll not found or Call Dll error !

>Process failed to respond; forcing abrupt termination...
>Exit code: 1    Time: 8.064

 

Please ask if you need further information.

 

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Edit: VIP helped me figure out that VC++ is required for using ImageSearch.dll

make sure you have it or install with link below
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/

Edited July 4, 2021 by nklight

when i add

#include <GuiListView.au3> 

i get error as so i have to use GuiListView.au3 but cant so have to delete from #include one of them to run script, any solve for this one? thank you.

C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include\SecurityConstants.au3"(63,30) : error: $TOKENPRIMARY previously declared as a 'Const'

 

Edited August 26, 2021 by tellme

No DLL found in the ZIP file

6 hours ago, Zoric said:

No DLL found in the ZIP file

The dll is already integrated in the UDF, you don't need to copy the dll!

Hello, I have position (X,Y) already, I dont want to use mouse click to take ScreenCapture. How to do that ? 

 Could you give me some Example ? 

16 hours ago, kctvt said:

Hello, I have position (X,Y) already, I dont want to use mouse click to take ScreenCapture. How to do that ? 

 Could you give me some Example ? 

Script yourself to take pictures at that coordinate with your dimensions and store them for use with Image Search UDF

I'm testing this now in mid 2023 on Windows 11, and the script partially works. It appears as though it's finding the correct image location on screen, but what's actually happening is that the image that's being saved is offset, usually by ~100px in the y direction, and then it finds that location and re-applies the offset, so the cursor goes to the correct location but the image it's searching for is really the wrong image. This causes some other issues as you might imagine, when attempting to build programs, so I'm wondering if I'm missing some obvious fix or if anyone else has encountered this behaviour? Still, pretty amazing code, but I'd love to figure out this offset issue. Thanks!

Thanks for making this UDF. I have an issue on Windows 11 where if my screen is Scaled to more than 100%, the returned coordinates are bigger than expected.

It appears the returned values are about the multiple of the scaled factor. So if the scaling factor was 150%, the result will be 150% bigger than the actual location of the image.

This might be because AutoIt is DPI un-aware, but the DLL might be giving DPI aware values instead...

UDF Version: 2025.05.25.5

AutoIt version: 3.3.16.1

Edited October 12 by HzStuff

I have updated to the UDF version 3.3 and AutoIt version 3.3.18.0 (x32 version). My screen is scaled as mentioned before.

While using the UDF, setting MouseMove using the found coordinate, it is able to get to the correct image position. Using MouseGetPos within the program also returns the same coordinate. 

However, if I also run AutoIt Window Info at the same time, the reported mouse coordinates are different!!

If I stop the script running the UDF, then run another script with only MouseGetPos and manually move the mouse cursor to the image location it reports the same mouse coordinate as AutoIt Window Info, but not the same coordinates as the script using UDF.

It would seem that the UDF somehow changed the script to be DPI aware. I think this is something you need to warn the users about.

On 11/8/2025 at 4:41 PM, HzStuff said:

I have updated to the UDF version 3.3 and AutoIt version 3.3.18.0 (x32 version). My screen is scaled as mentioned before.

While using the UDF, setting MouseMove using the found coordinate, it is able to get to the correct image position. Using MouseGetPos within the program also returns the same coordinate. 

However, if I also run AutoIt Window Info at the same time, the reported mouse coordinates are different!!

If I stop the script running the UDF, then run another script with only MouseGetPos and manually move the mouse cursor to the image location it reports the same mouse coordinate as AutoIt Window Info, but not the same coordinates as the script using UDF.

It would seem that the UDF somehow changed the script to be DPI aware. I think this is something you need to warn the users about.

Yes, it affects mouse coordinates by using physical pixels (unscaled) instead of logical ones (scaled by Windows).

		HMODULE hUser = LoadLibraryW(L"user32.dll");
		if (hUser) {
			auto pSetCtx = (PFN_SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext)GetProcAddress(hUser, "SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext");
			if (pSetCtx) {
				const DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT ctx = (DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT)-4;
				pSetCtx(ctx);
			}
			else {
				auto pLegacy = (PFN_SetProcessDPIAware)GetProcAddress(hUser, "SetProcessDPIAware");
				if (pLegacy) pLegacy();
			}
			FreeLibrary(hUser);
		}

 

Given it does makes AutoIt to be DPI aware, this creates a problem for anything GUI related if someone uses it on a scaled monitor.

I have created 2 scripts. Both create the same form. The difference is that one uses UDF and the other does not. (I have attached both scripts for you to test).

On a non-100% scaled monitor, the result is:

• The forms created are different size and in different location.
• The reported desktop sizes are different.
• The reported mouse coordinates are different. 

Is there anyway to change the UDF so that it doesn't affect the DPI awareness of AutoIt?

MouseCheck-noUDF.au3 MouseCheck-ImageSearchUDF.au3

Edited November 10 by HzStuff

On 11/10/2025 at 4:35 PM, HzStuff said:

Given it does makes AutoIt to be DPI aware, this creates a problem for anything GUI related if someone uses it on a scaled monitor.

I have created 2 scripts. Both create the same form. The difference is that one uses UDF and the other does not. (I have attached both scripts for you to test).

On a non-100% scaled monitor, the result is:

• The forms created are different size and in different location.
• The reported desktop sizes are different.
• The reported mouse coordinates are different. 

Is there anyway to change the UDF so that it doesn't affect the DPI awareness of AutoIt?

MouseCheck-noUDF.au3 1.21 kB · 3 downloads MouseCheck-ImageSearchUDF.au3 2.59 kB · 3 downloads

Fixed, dll only applies internal dpi dl, will not affect AutoIt GUI!