Shai

Anyone know of software that will basically take a screen print, map all the pixels and their colors and then spit that out into a file? I've setup a macro to scan for 30 contiguous and unique pixels. Unfortunately, it takes forever. I'm trying to speed up this process.

Set the appropriate ME option to allow nested variables (refer to Kevin's response here: Variable Evaluation Level).

 

Then store the repeat counter into a variable (let's use %n99% in this example), and reference the source variables for %n31% in your repeat loop with:

Variable Set Integer %n31% to %n%n99%%

When %n99% is 1, this command sets %n31% to the value of %n1%; when %n99% is 28, this command sets %n31% to the value of %n28%.

I had tried to do this before but ME complained, thanks a bunch.

What you want to do is use something like %T%N1%% to access a sequential series of variables (%T1%, %T2%, %T3%, etc.) inside a repeat loop. To do this you need to enable the Variable Evaluation Level. If using Macro Express v 3.7 or later click Options, Preferences, Miscellaneous, Advanced and set the 'Variables Evaluation Level' to 1 or 2.

 

For information about this feature see the Macro Express News - July 13, 2005 newsletter and the User Submitted Macro - Variable Evaluation Level shared macro page.

 

Other discussions on this topic within this discussion forum can be found at these links:

• Repeat Variable Loop
  
• Able To Use Variable In Variable Names?
  
• Nested Variable?, How do I make a variable variable?
  
• Setting Variable %t%n1%%
  

Ahhhhh, I had tried to do this but ME complained so I assumed it could not be done. Thanks. Now if I can just remember the logic I was going to use it in

I'm trying to do a search for a series of 30 contiguous pixel colors in the positive X direction from a set of integer variables set to specific color values. When the first value is found the macro will increment to the next X coordinate and test for the second pixel color. Basically a repeat loop is going to fetch %N1% which is the first pixel color and put it into %N31%. When %N31%, which is set to %N1%'s value, is found the X coordinate will be incremented by 1 and then %N31% needs to be set to %N2% which is the second pixel color I'm looking for. This is where I'm having the problem. How to make %N31% = %N1%, then %N31% = %N2%, then %N3% and so forth. I'd like to have this in some efficient logic that increments N31 to N1 or N2 or N3 etc based on a repeat counter. But ATM I can only see to do it manually with 30 written checks. Is there a way to do this? I'm not a programmer, a hobbyist perhaps, but I'm guessing this might be a "boolean variable" falling in the domain of Macro Express Pro?