Either a Label or PixelGetColor is inconsistent

[RealisT 0]

Windows XP SP3

Script creates a GUI Form with background Color A and a textless Label on it with background Color B. With me so far?

Script returns PixelGetColor info wherever the mouse clicks over the label. Here's the wierd part:

Although the label is all the same color (or so I thought), clicking in most places over the label returns the label's color, but in other places it returns the color of the form underneath it. This makes the PixelGetColor unuseable for me even for a simple one-color object.

(The issue is repeatable; you just need to find the areas which do this.)

What is the problem? Is the label 'porous', or is PixelGetColor not always looking at the top (visible) layer?

Is there an adjustment or workaround for this? I just need reliable color info returned over different labels.

Here is the code:

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#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
AutoItSetOption("MouseCoordMode", 2)

Global $formBGColor = 0x669999
Global $boardBGOffColor = 0xBCDCFF


$formWidth = Int(@DesktopWidth * 0.8)
$formHeight = Int(@DesktopHeight * 0.8)
$formLeft = Int((@DesktopWidth - $formWidth) / 2)
$formTop = Int((@DesktopHeight - $formHeight) / 2)

$mainForm = GUICreate("TEST", $formWidth, $formHeight, $formLeft, $formTop)
GUISetBkColor($formBGColor)

$boardBGPanelWidth = 450
$boardBGPanelHeight = 600
$boardBGPanelLeft = 350
$boardBGPanelTop = 36
$boardBGPanel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", $boardBGPanelLeft, $boardBGPanelTop, $boardBGPanelWidth, $boardBGPanelHeight)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($boardBGPanel, $boardBGOffColor)


GUISetState()
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            ExitLoop

        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_PRIMARYDOWN
            $mouse = MouseGetPos()
            $mouseColor = PixelGetColor($mouse[0], $mouse[1])
            If $mouse[0] > $boardBGPanelLeft And $mouse[0] < $boardBGPanelLeft + $boardBGPanelWidth Then
                If $mouse[1] > $boardBGPanelTop And $mouse[1] < $boardBGPanelTop + $boardBGPanelHeight Then
                    ConsoleWrite("Color = " & Hex($mouseColor, 6) & @CRLF)
                EndIf
            EndIf
    EndSelect
Wend

Exit

[Tvern 11]

Take another look at

AutoItSetOption("MouseCoordMode", 2)

What coordmode does PixelGetColor() use?

[RealisT 0]

Take another look at

AutoItSetOption("MouseCoordMode", 2)

What coordmode does PixelGetColor() use?

Oops.

Everything was responding so well, coordinate-wise, until this one issue, so I thought my settings were fine. But this is the first demand for pixel-related functions. My bad.

Works OK now with AutoItSetOption("PixelCoordMode", 2). Thanks.