background colors

[MasonMill]

Hi guys,

I am very familiar with pixel search, as i use it all the time altering my desktop stuff. I quite enjoy it actually, its great. I have a question though. So if i have a desktop icon, i want to throw it in the trash bin. If i dont know the color that it will be, but i know the color of the desktop background, how do i find the icons? Here is how i would do it if i knew the colors.

while 1

    $Desktop_Icon = PixelSearch(618, 68, 929, 299, 0xAB1A00, 10)
    
    If IsArray($Desktop_Icon) then
        MouseClickDrag("left", $Desktop_Icon[0], $Desktop_Icon[1],400 , 200, 1)  ;400,200 is my trash bin
        sleep(50)
    EndIf
WEnd

I know what you are all thinking, that it would be much easier doing it other ways, but i like tinkering with the pixelsearch. Thanks guys!

[MasonMill]

So is there no way of doing it? Like say if some part of the background ISNT that color, then do something?

[czardas]

I haven't tried this, but from the help file - Failure: Sets @error to 1 if color is not found. So perhaps you can adjust the coordinates of the previous successful search to get the icon coordinates, and drag from there. Otherwise I don't know!

However it sounds like a very unpredictable method of cleaning up your desktop. Are you sure that's what you are trying to do? I would advise against it: Things could easily go wrong.

[MasonMill]

Thats the problem, is that there wont be an error due to the background being there. I guess there is no way of doing like a reverse pixel search such that if a color is there other than the one your looking for you get a response?

[jaberwacky]

Could you use FileListToArray(@desktopdir) and then go by the name of the file?

[MasonMill]

Well im just exploring the techniques of pixelsearch, I don't want to do anything with files.

[MasonMill]

maybe get all pixel colors of desktop and say if not those then drag?