VB.NET (VB2010) - PixelGetColor

[Gordi300]

Hi, I'm making a program to get the color of a pixel in the screen and I want to code:

If it's black (RGB 0,0,0) click that pixel and if it's red (RGB 255,0,0) press Esc. I was making the code but I get stuck when I have to say the color of the pixel. If you can help me or give me any advise I would be really greateful. I'm from Uruguay, my English is not the best, I wish you can understand me. TY

Code:

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
     AutoitCommand.PixelGetColor(100, 100)
        If PixelColorBlack Then                 'THIS IS WHAT I DON'T KNOW HOT TO CODE
            AutoitCommand.MouseClick("Left", 100, 100)
         ElseIf PixelColorRed Then          'THIS IS WHAT I DON'T KNOW HOT TO CODE
            AutoitCommand.Send("{Esc}")
        End If 
End Sub

[Richard Robertson]

There are a lot of ways to do it. The easiest is to get a reference to the device context for the desktop and copy the segment you care about to a local buffer you can read for color.

While I say easy, I mean that it's easy if you are already familiar with graphics in win32.

This is the function that will let you get the DC. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd144871%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Edited January 26, 2014 by Richard Robertson

[Gordi300]

I'm not so familiar with graphics in win32 but I can try. A friend told me that using AutoIt PixelGetColor was the easier way to make the program.
I want to take it from a game made in DirectX and AutoIt is very useful for this kind of games.

Do you have any idea of how it will be in VB.NET using AutoIt?

I was thinking about declaring the result of PixelGetColor(100, 100) in RGB. What dou u think about this?

[Richard Robertson]

Ok, two things. First and more importantly, automation of games is strictly against the rules for the forum.

Second, images rendered on the graphics card (DirectX) instead of via standard win32 (GDI) means are much harder to pull images from and I'm not sure where to point you even if we could discuss this.

[Gordi300]

Is for making automation in a game but only for educational use. This collects the rest of the dragons when you hit them and not to lose time collecting them. Is for everyone and I if you use it, you don't take any advantage, only you can play more time and have more fun. I don't see anything bad with that because is not for making a bot and take advantage, that is against the rules of the forum.

The only thing I need is how to declare the result of the PixelGetColor. Any ideas?

[Melba23]

Gordi300.

You might only want to use the code for "educational use" and it might not be against the game rules, but it is most certainly against our Forum rules (there is also a link at bottom right of each page). Thread locked.

M23