Looking for macro recorder/screen capture code

skyn3t · 11-30-2009, 04:42 PM

I'm making a custom gaming ai for preexisting games and need to have it run in the background, be able to put screen-captures into variables/arrays/etc., and control the mouse and keyboard on my Ubuntu Linux. I've searched extensively but can't find anything on how to do this. I'm not sure how complicated what I'm asking for is, so if functions or code snippets are unavailable I'll take a link to somewhere that will show me how to write it.

MK27 · 12-01-2009, 05:18 PM

Xlib will give you access to the mouse, and there is probably a way to do a screen capture too (but I doubt a single function, it is all low level stuff). Anything graphical has to use the Xlib API on one level or another, so it is already part of your project, or used by the libraries you are using.

I've used this before:
http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/

skyn3t · 12-02-2009, 04:36 PM

That's what I was looking for. Thx.

11-30-2009, 04:42 PM	#1
skyn3t Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 2	Looking for macro recorder/screen capture code I'm making a custom gaming ai for preexisting games and need to have it run in the background, be able to put screen-captures into variables/arrays/etc., and control the mouse and keyboard on my Ubuntu Linux. I've searched extensively but can't find anything on how to do this. I'm not sure how complicated what I'm asking for is, so if functions or code snippets are unavailable I'll take a link to somewhere that will show me how to write it.
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12-01-2009, 05:18 PM	#2
MK27 Eternally Earnest Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SE Queens Posts: 4,608	Xlib will give you access to the mouse, and there is probably a way to do a screen capture too (but I doubt a single function, it is all low level stuff). Anything graphical has to use the Xlib API on one level or another, so it is already part of your project, or used by the libraries you are using. I've used this before: http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/ __________________ BEING HELPFUL SHOULD MEAN SHARING KNOWLEDGE, NOT WITHHOLDING IT. ==mk27 A truly creative person rids him or her self of all self-imposed limitations. ==recent fortune cookie
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12-02-2009, 04:36 PM	#3
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