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aravind13
June 24th, 2008, 07:28 AM
Hi,

I am new to X-window programming & this forum.

My problem is to find the coordinates of a colored rectangle on screen.
There is an application which outputs a filled rectangle in a particular colour on the screen (Linux platform).
Can anyone please suggest an efficient way to get the on-screen coordinates of this rectangle using Xlib/SDL?

Scanning the screen pixel-wise (segmentation) will be a time consuming process.
Is there any way/algorithm/pseudocode for doing this efficiently?

Thanks in advance.