Thread: Looking for macro recorder/screen capture code

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    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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    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/
    C programming resources:
    GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
    The C Book -- nice online learner guide
    Current ISO draft standard
    CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
    3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
    cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge

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    That's what I was looking for. Thx.

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