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Author Topic: Best way to programmatically scan the game screen?  (Read 678 times)

jeancallisti

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Best way to programmatically scan the game screen?
« on: March 11, 2018, 04:00:24 am »
I'd like to write a mod that scans the options displayed on the screen, in any menu, at any time, in order to render them differently. In other words: I need to obtain the list of options available for the player in any given screen.
How would you achieve that? Would DFHack be a good "middleware"?
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Putnam

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Re: Best way to programmatically scan the game screen?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2018, 04:45:15 am »
DFHack lets you directly obtain the current viewscreen and the UI state in general, so it'd probably be better for what you want than scanning the whole screen for that purpose anyway.
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jeancallisti

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Re: Best way to programmatically scan the game screen?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2018, 08:25:35 am »
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