windows 7 pixelsearch quetion

[Aceguy]

Hi does anyone know if the pixelsearch() func is as slow in winodws 7 as it is in vista, i have diabled Aero theme, (which speed it up dramatically).

gonna try the beta windows 7 and would like to know if its as lightning fast with the Glass theme on.

Many Thanks.

[monoceres]

My guess is that it's as slow as Vista. The reason is that just like Vista, win7 emulates gdi so when you call GetDC() it needs to copy stuff and whatever. More here.

[sandin]

try this:

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#Include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <Color.au3>

Global $x1 = 50, $y1 = 50, $x2 = 100, $y2 = 300, $color = 0xFFFFFF, $speed = 1, $win_handle = "[ACTIVE]"

Global $time_start = TimerInit()
$pixel_coord = _pixel_search_win7($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $color, $speed, $win_handle);X-start, Y-start, X-end, Y-end, Color, Speed, WinHandle
if NOT @error Then
    $time = TimerDiff($time_start)
    MsgBox(0, "Win7", $pixel_coord[0] & ", " & $pixel_coord[1] & @CRLF & "time [ms]: " & Round($time, 2))
Else
    MsgBox(0, "", "color not found")
EndIf

$time_start = TimerInit()
$pixel2 = PixelSearch($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $color, $speed, -1, $win_handle)
if NOT @error Then
    $time = TimerDiff($time_start)
    MsgBox(0, "PixelSearch", $pixel2[0] & ", " & $pixel2[1] & @CRLF & "time [ms]: " & Round($time, 2))
Else
    MsgBox(0, "", "color not found")
EndIf

Func _pixel_search_win7($i_Left, $i_Top, $i_Right, $i_Bottom, $i_Color, $i_Speed = 1, $i_Win_handle = 0)
    if $i_Speed = -1 then $i_Speed = 1
    if $i_Win_handle = -1 then $i_Win_handle = 0
    Local $hGDI = DllOpen("gdi32.dll"), $color, $found = false
    Dim $ret_val[2]
    Local $hDC = _WinAPI_GetDC($i_Win_handle)
    For $i = $i_Top To $i_Bottom Step +$i_Speed
        For $j = $i_Left To $i_Right Step +$i_Speed
            $color = DllCall($hGDI, "int", "GetPixel", "int", $hDC, "int", $j, "int", $i)
            if "0x" & Hex($color[0], 6) = $i_Color Then
                $found = True
                $ret_val[1] = $i
                $ret_val[0] = $j
                ExitLoop
            EndIf
        Next
        if $found = True then ExitLoop
    Next
    _WinAPI_ReleaseDC($i_Win_handle, $hDC)
    DllClose($hGDI)
    if $found = true Then
        Return $ret_val
    Else
        SetError (1)
    EndIf
EndFunc

anyway, always use winhandle it'll speed up the search

[Richard Robertson]

Yes, like Vista, Windows 7 takes advantage of hardware rendering. This means GDI commands (software rendering) will suffer.

[Aceguy]

thanks for that test script, after a momoth 26hrs reinstallation to win7

the testscript results are as follows.

Win7 1380.47 MS

Pixelsearch 17.18

so the only way is to turn it off