Robot class

[coltragon]

Hello people,

I have made the following code.

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package javaapplication2;
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.MouseInfo;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Robot;
public class Main {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            Robot bot = new Robot();
            System.out.println("Please move your mouse to the monster to attack /n" +
                    "and keep it on it for 5 seconds."); // just some message   
Point location = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation(); //mouse position
int mouseX = (int)location.getX();
int mouseY = (int)location.getY();
Color pixelcolor; //declaring the variable where the color of the pixel will be stored in
bot.delay(5000); // 5 seconds sleep
pixelcolor = bot.getPixelColor(mouseX, mouseY); //get the color of mouse position
System.out.println(pixelcolor); // print it
System.out.println("Bot will now start searching for monsters and attack.");


        }
        catch (AWTException AWT) {
            System.out.println("AWTException occured");
        }
    }
}

Now what i want to do is: search the screen for the color we have found earlier. I haven't found any method doing this. Does it exist?

If not, i thought of the following. Move the mouse over the entire screen and check pixelcolor everytime, i know how to make this method i think. But would it be effective?

[Norm]

search the screen for the color we have found earlier

Yes there are ways to do this. Look at the PixelGrabber class. There probably is sample code here if you Search for that class name.
It would allow you to look at all the pixels for an image.

[camickr]

Use the Robot class to create a BufferedImage of the screen. Then you can search the BufferedImage one pixel at a time to find the matching pixels.

[coltragon]

Pixelgrabber can only search pixels in a image, what i want to do is search pixels in a computer game.

As for the bufferedImage how could i accomplish this?:confused:

[Norm]

search pixels in a computer game

Where are these pixels?
What does being in a game mean?

[coltragon]

The pixels are on my screen, yet still i need to search a specifix color pixel on my screen.

[Norm]

Use the Robot class to capture the pixels on the screen to an image and then you can scan that image.