Need Some Help

[cougarelite]

Hey everyone,

I am creating an AutoIt script, just for a challenge when I'm bored, but I'm not even sure if it's possible. What I'm trying to do is automate the blackjack dealing on DealerSim. DealerSim is a program designed to train casino blackjack dealers. I have a picture attached of what the program looks like.

So far my script:

- figures out which seats have players in them

- deals out the two first cards to the players and the dealer

It's not very much, and I've already come up with a problem. For the next step, I need AutoIt to recognize which card the dealer has been dealt. It only matters if it's a Ten or an Ace, in case that makes it any easier. As you can see in the picture, not much of this card is showing, but yeah I need AutoIt to be able to tell when it's a Ten or an Ace. I'm pretty clueless on how to do this. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

CougarElite

[martin]

Maybe you could just capture the part of the screen which shows just the top left of the card and compare it to a previous capture of an ace or a ten. I would just compare every character in the files and as soon as there was a difference stop. You would need example captures of all 4 aces and all 4 tens.

Have a look at

http://www.autoitscript.com/fileman/users/Lazycat/dlls.html

[The Kandie Man]

Look around the forum for OCR(optical character recognition) libraries. People use scripts to recognize characters and symbols in pictures quite frequently. You should get a lot of results, especially in the Example Scripts forum.