Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > . > >For a side project I'm working on I need to be able to scrape a modern > >computer desktop. Is there any basic material already available to do > >this? I'd rather not need to write my own to interact with hardware. > . > . > . > Oh, no. > > Very hard. Very, very hard. > > At least as you've expressed it here, this is an exceptionally > difficult task. What does "scrape" mean to you? Do you want > to reproduce the display remotely, or extract text, or some other > possibility? Does "modern computer" mean Windows to you?
Scrape means simply scraping pixel colors from locations on the screen. I'll worry about assembling it into meaningful information. Previously, I used Java, and it has a very handy built in class called Robot that can, amongst other things, report the color of on screen pixels. Thusly, I assumed the task could be accomplished reasonably easily. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
