screen flicker/flash when taking bitmap

[jpuerj]

Hi! I've seen this problem in the classic gdip library where the window flicker/blink/flash when taking the bitmap of the active window. This is happening for a specific program in my case. Is there a way to solve this? Thanks.

[iseahound]

Why not just use ImagePutFile({screenshot: "A"}) to take a screenshot instead of using the PrintWindow API as with ImagePutFile("A"). If it flickers its probably some accelerated window such as a game.

[jpuerj]

The problem is that I'm using ImagePutBuffer and then using the buffer to do ImageSearch. Is there a way to put it in a variable without passing it to a file?

[iseahound]

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[iseahound]

The answer is to ask ImagePut to take a screenshot instead.

; Specify the input type as a screenshot to avoid window flicker.
; Replace "A" with the title of your window.
file := ImagePutFile({screenshot: "A"})  ; string to a filepath. 
buf := ImagePutBuffer({screenshot: "A"}) ; buffer object

PixelSearch Example:

xy := buf.pixelsearch(0xFFFFFF)
MsgBox xy[1], xy[2]