I'm stuck with a script.

[Randomname]

Hi,

I'm working on a script atm, and there's one thing that I need to do - but I can't think a way to do it, but I don't think it can't be done. So what I want to do is the following.

Let's say we have one box of a specific color, say brown (doesn't really matter) the size and the position of the box is random, it can differ a couple of pixels. So, inside the brown box, there are white boxes (random position and size, though always inside the brown box, the number of white boxes are also random). I need a way to find out how many white boxes that are inside the brown box. Of course the boxes are in the active window.

Of course I could just start checking each pixel of the screen... but that wouldn't be very effective would it?

I don't need any code just some ideas on how to make this work. Thanks a lot in advance!

[torels]

are the boxes gui elements, are they in apicture or what ?

[Randomname]

are the boxes gui elements, are they in apicture or what ?

They're in a picture .

EDIT: Or at least they're not GUI elements.

Edited May 7, 2008 by Randomname

[Randomname]

Can PixelSearch find the brown box even if there're white boxes inside of it?

[Randomname]

I've gotten a bit further, I can now get the coordinates of the brown box, the only thing I need to know now, is how many white boxes that can be found in a specified area.

[torels]

are the boxes always detached or do they overlap ?

[Randomname]

are the boxes always detached or do they overlap ?

They're always detached.

Edited May 7, 2008 by Randomname

[torels]

mayby i've got it baut it's real crazy !

you should write a cicle which pixel searches 2 pixels at a time so youll' start with 0,1 and then 2,3 and so on

if both are white then they are part of the box (the white one)

you add them in an array... the cicle runs til the image is finished

at the end the number of the second index of the array gives you the number of boxes

EDIT: NO 2D ARRAY!!

Edited May 7, 2008 by torels

[torels]

#include <array.au3>
$pw = "picturewidth"
$y = 0
dim $h[1]
for $i = 0 to $pw Step +2
    if $i = $pw then $y += 1
    $p1 = PixelGetColor($i,$y)
    $p2 = PixelGetColor($i + 1,$y)
    
    if $p1 = Dec("FFFFFF") and $p2 = Dec("FFFFFF") Then $h[0] = "t"
    if $p1 = Dec("FFFFFF") and $p2 <> Dec("FFFFFF") Then _ArrayAdd($h,"")
    if $p1 <> Dec("FFFFFF") and $p2 = Dec("FFFFFF") then $h[ubound($h) - 1] = "t"
    
    if $i >= $pw then exitloop
Next

return (UBound($h) - 1) / $pw

should work!