[request] want to be able to deal with mousepointer (status, current icon, ...)

[Andrew Whalen]

----- problem
in current implementation, when searching for images, the base image (a screenshot) does not contain the mouse pointer and hence cannot be searched for

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I am trying to do a match on an image of my mouse pointer. However it is never found when using wait(). In the script I am creating the mouse changes from a normal pointer to a pointer with an hourglass. I have managed to capture this image by using SnagIt, and my script moves the mouse pointer ( using hover() ) to a point on the screen where the background matches the background of my captured mouse image. However when I run my script and the mouse pointer changes from a normal mouse pointer to a busy mouse pointer (with an hourglass) Sikuli it not able to find it. I expect the mouse to be a visible part of the screen when searching. If it isn't, I would expect to be able to enable this functionality. For some applications it is the only way to see that the application is busy and / or has finished an operation.

When I try to find the mouse pointer using a screen capture tool like SnagIt and then using the following code, I am able to find a match:

f = Finder("mouse_pointer_zone.png")
img = "busy_icon.png"
f.find(img)
while f.hasNext(): # loop as long there is a first and more matches
        print "found: ", f.next() # access the next match in the row

print f.hasNext() # is False, because f is empty now
f.destroy() # release the memory used by finder

So it seems that the problem is localized to the Region.find() method.

I'm using Sikuli 1.0.0 32-bit on Windows XP and Java 1.6.

[rob (reg82)]

the ability to detect changes in the mouse pointer would be a wonderful tool for me as well.