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ken
i'm trying to figure out the complexity of writing a Windows C++ app
that will automatically read a Poker window and then be able to make
odds estimates based on that. there are applications out there, like
Texas Calculatem, which do exactly this, and i'm trying to write one myself.
figuring out the poker logic part is fine, but it's the screen scraping
of a remote windows app that i'm trying to get a handle on.
will this problem boil down to getting a bitmap capture of the desktop
area where the poker window resides? are there win32 api calls that will
make this easier? anything that will give me ascii data or will i
ultimately have to parse a bitmap for card images? if so, are there any
bitmap parsing tools to make that easier than writing my own pixel
matching routines?
i'm linux programmer, so new to win32 programming. i appreciate any
suggestions in where to look for tackling this project. also, i'm
planning to use mingw as my compiler package. will that give me the
necessary tools to write this kind of application?
thank you!
ken
that will automatically read a Poker window and then be able to make
odds estimates based on that. there are applications out there, like
Texas Calculatem, which do exactly this, and i'm trying to write one myself.
figuring out the poker logic part is fine, but it's the screen scraping
of a remote windows app that i'm trying to get a handle on.
will this problem boil down to getting a bitmap capture of the desktop
area where the poker window resides? are there win32 api calls that will
make this easier? anything that will give me ascii data or will i
ultimately have to parse a bitmap for card images? if so, are there any
bitmap parsing tools to make that easier than writing my own pixel
matching routines?
i'm linux programmer, so new to win32 programming. i appreciate any
suggestions in where to look for tackling this project. also, i'm
planning to use mingw as my compiler package. will that give me the
necessary tools to write this kind of application?
thank you!
ken