Color of a screen pixel
Get color information from an arbitrary pixel on the screen, such as the current location of the mouse cursor.
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
- Task
The mouse cursor may or may not have to be active in a GUI created by your program. These functions are OS related.
App Inventor
App Inventor has two Canvas blocks to determine the color under a pixel.
GetBackgroundPixelColor returns a color from the Canvas but ignores Ball sprites and ImageSprites.
GetPixelColor returns a color from either the Canvas or a Ball sprite or ImageSprite.
In the app's display below, the purple Ball sprite was touched on the left canvas, but the pixel color (green) returned was from the area below it.
<VIEW THE BLOCKS AND ANDROID APP DISPLAY>
AutoHotkey
<lang AutoHotkey>PixelGetColor, color, %X%, %Y%</lang>
AutoIt
<lang autoit>Opt('MouseCoordMode',1) ; 1 = (default) absolute screen coordinates $pos = MouseGetPos() $c = PixelGetColor($pos[0], $pos[1]) ConsoleWrite("Color at x=" & $pos[0] & ",y=" & $pos[1] & _ " ==> " & $c & " = 0x" & Hex($c) & @CRLF)</lang>
- Output:
Color at x=3,y=733 ==> 3829413 = 0x003A6EA5
Axe
<lang axe>Disp pxl-Test(50,50)▶Dec,i</lang>
BaCon
BaCon can make use of the High Performance Canvas include. Outside this canvas it needs to access XLib API functions. <lang qbasic>INCLUDE canvas FULLSCREEN color = GETINK(100, 100, 4) WAITKEY</lang>
BASIC
Applesoft BASIC
Low-Resolution (Lo-Res) graphics 40x48, 16 colors, page 1
<lang Applesoft BASIC>X = PDL (0) * 5 / 32 Y = PDL (1) * 3 / 16
COLOR= SCRN( X,Y)</lang>
Hi-Resolution (Hi-Res) graphics 280x192, 6 colors
There is no HSCRN( X,Y) function in Applesoft. What follows is an elaborate subroutine that determines the hi-res color at the location given by variables X and Y on the current hi-res page. A color value in the range from 0 to 7 is returned in the variable C. The color is determined by peeking at adjacent pixels and the Most Significant Bit MSB. The VTAB routine is used as an aid to calculate the address of pixels. Other colors beyond the 6 hi-res colors can be displayed by positioning pixels at byte boundaries using the MSB. This routine is limited to the eight hi-res colors.
<lang Applesoft BASIC>
100 REM GET HCOLOR 110 REM PARAMETERS: X Y 120 REM RETURNS: C 130 REM 140 P = 0:X = X + 1 150 ON (X < 280) GOSUB 300 160 PR = P:P = 0:X = X - 2 170 ON (X > = 0) GOSUB 300 180 PL = P:X = X + 1: GOSUB 300 190 ODD = X - INT (X / 2) * 2 200 C = H * 4 210 IF NOT ((PL = PR) AND (PL < > P)) THEN C = C + P * 3: RETURN 220 IF ODD THEN P = NOT P 230 C = C + P + 1 240 RETURN 250 REM 260 REM GET PIXEL 270 REM PARAMETERS: X Y 280 REM RETURNS: H P 290 REM 300 H = INT (X / 7) 310 V = INT (Y / 8) 320 VO = PEEK (37) 330 HO = PEEK (36) 340 VTAB V + 1: HTAB 1 350 A = PEEK (41) * 256 360 A = A + PEEK (40) + H 370 VTAB VO + 1: HTAB HO + 1 380 A = A + 8192 - 1024 390 P = PEEK (230) / 32 400 IF P = 2 THEN A = A + 8192 410 A = A + (Y - V * 8) * 1024 420 B = X - H * 7 430 V = PEEK (A) 440 H = INT (V / 128) 450 V = INT (V / (2 ^ B)) 460 P = V - INT (V / 2) * 2 470 RETURN
X = 267 : Y = 166 : GOSUB 100 HCOLOR= C </lang>
BBC BASIC
In BBC BASIC for Windows you can read either the 'logical colour' (palette index) or the 'true colour' (24-bit RGB value). <lang bbcbasic> palette_index% = POINT(x%, y%)
RGB24b_colour% = TINT(x%, y%)</lang>
Commodore BASIC
Example 1: Commodore 64
There are no graphics commands in Commodore 64 BASIC. High resolution (hires) graphics are programmed by directly manipulating the hardware registers and memory.
The Commodore 64 hires bitmap is 320×200, subdivided into 8×8 cells starting at the top left and moving right. Each cell is addressed top to bottom by 8 bytes. Each byte controls a horizontal row of 8 bits. This requires calculation on the programmer's part to translate X,Y coordinates into a specific memory address/value combination (lines 1210 through 1220).
<lang gwbasic>5 rem commodore 64 example 10 base=2*4096:x=100:y=50:poke53280,0 20 gosub 1000:print chr$(147); 30 bg=11:fg=1:rem set foreground and background colors 40 for i=1024 to 1503:poke i,fg*16+bg:next 50 for i=base to base+7990:poke i,0:next 60 gosub 1200 70 poke byte, peek(byte) or 2^bit 80 print"{home}{crsr-down 14}"; 90 px=((peek(byte) and 2^bit)>0) 100 co=peek(cb)and(15+(-225*px)):if px then co=co/16 110 print"pixel color at";x;"{crsr-left},";y;"{crsr-left}:";co;"{crsr-left} " 120 getk$:ifk$=""then 120 130 gosub 1100:end 1000 rem turn on graphics 1010 poke53272,peek(53272) or 8 1020 poke53265,peek(53265) or 32 1030 return 1100 rem turn off graphics 1110 poke53265,peek(53265) and 223 1120 poke53272,peek(53272) and 247 1130 return 1200 rem convert x-y into mem location 1210 ro=int(y/8):ch=int(x/8):li=y and 7 1220 bit=7-(x and 7):byte=base+ro*320+char*8+li:cb=1024+ro+ch 1230 return </lang>
Example 2: Commodore Plus 4 and 128
On both machines, there is a split graphics-text screen that can be used, and the extended BASIC provides functions for reading pixel and color values from the bitmap.
<lang gwbasic>10 color 0,1:color 1,3: rem set border to black and pixel color to red 15 graphic 2,1: rem enter split graphics/text mode and clear screen 20 draw 1,100,50 : rem plot pixel at 100,50 30 print "pixel color at";rdot(0);",";rdot(1);"is";rclr(rdot(2)) 40 get k$:if k$="" then 40 50 graphic 0,1 : rem return to text mode</lang>
FreeBASIC
This is a very simple example from the FreeBASIC documentation. To obtain the color of an arbitrary screen pixel (i.e. outside the graphics screen controlled by FB) one would need to use API functions. <lang freebasic>FB 1.05.0 Win64
' Set an appropriate screen mode - 320 x 240 x 8bpp indexed color ScreenRes 320, 240, 8
' Draw a line using color 12 (light red) Line (20,20)-(100,100), 12
' Print the color of a point on the line Print Point(20,20) prints 12
' Sleep before the program closes Sleep</lang>
QuickBASIC
In a graphics mode (for instance, SCREEN 13 or SCREEN 12) <lang qbasic>color = point(x, y)</lang>
Integer BASIC
See Applesoft BASIC.
Liberty BASIC
<lang lb>'This example requires the Windows API Struct point, x As long, y As long
hDC = GetDC(0) result = GetCursorPos() Print GetPixel(hDC, point.x.struct, point.y.struct) Call ReleaseDC 0, hDC End
Sub ReleaseDC hWnd, hDC CallDLL #user32,"ReleaseDC", hWnd As uLong, hDC As uLong, ret As Long End Sub
Function GetDC(hWnd) CallDLL #user32, "GetDC", hWnd As uLong, GetDC As uLong End Function
Function GetCursorPos() CallDLL #user32, "GetCursorPos", point As struct, GetCursorPos As uLong End Function
Function GetPixel(hDC, x, y) CallDLL #gdi32, "GetPixel", hDC As uLong, x As long, y As long, GetPixel As long End Function</lang>
Locomotive Basic
<lang locobasic>10 x=320:y=200 20 color=TEST(x,y) 30 PRINT "Pen color at"; x; y; "is"; color</lang>
PureBasic
Return the color used at the x,y position in the current output. If the current output has an alpha channel then the result will be a 32bit RGBA value, otherwise it will be a 24bit RGB value. The color can be split in their RGB and alpha values by using the Red(), Green(), Blue() and Alpha() functions.
<lang PureBasic>Color = Point(x, y)</lang>
To get the colour of a pixel on the screen when it is not managed by PureBasic (ie. from other programs' windows), it is necessary to use Windows API. This works only under Windows.
<lang PureBasic> hDC = GetDC_(0) Color = GetPixel_(hDC, x, y) ReleaseDC_(0, hDC)</lang>
This work fine!!
<lang PureBasic>poz.point If OpenWindow(0,0,0,100,45,"Get pixel color at cursor position",#PB_Window_MinimizeGadget)
TextGadget(0,0,0,50,12,"Red: ") TextGadget(1,0,15,50,12,"Green: ") TextGadget(2,0,30,50,12,"Blue: ") TextGadget(3,50,0,50,12,"") TextGadget(4,50,15,50,12,"") TextGadget(5,50,30,50,12,"") hDC = GetDC_(0) Repeat oldx=poz\x oldy=poz\y
GetCursorPos_(@poz) Color = GetPixel_(hDC, poz\x, poz\y) If poz\x<>oldx Or poz\y<>oldy
SetGadgetText(3,Str(Red(color))) SetGadgetText(4,Str(Green(color))) SetGadgetText(5,Str(Blue(color)))
EndIf event=WaitWindowEvent(200) Until event=#PB_Event_CloseWindow ReleaseDC_(0, hDC) EndIf</lang>
SmileBASIC
<lang smilebasic>DEF GETPX X,Y OUT R,G,B
PCOL=GSPOIT(X,Y) RGBREAD PCOL OUT R,G,B
END</lang>
TI-89 BASIC
Only the graph screen can be read.
<lang ti89b>pxlTest(y, x) © returns boolean</lang>
Visual Basic .NET
<lang vbnet> Private Function GetPixelColor(ByVal Location As Point) As Color
Dim b As New Bitmap(1, 1) Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(b)
g.CopyFromScreen(Location, Point.Empty, New Size(1, 1))
Return b.GetPixel(0, 0)
End Function</lang>
VBA
In "pure" Visual Basic for Application, there is no way to find the color of a screen pixel. We have to use api's functions. This code should be adapted for 64 bits versions...
<lang vb> Option Explicit
Private Type POINTAPI
x As Long y As Long
End Type
Private Declare Function GetPixel Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long) As Long Private Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "USER32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long Private Declare Function GetWindowDC Lib "USER32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Sub Color_of_a_screen_pixel() Dim myColor As Long
myColor = Get_Color_Under_Cursor
End Sub
Function Get_Color_Under_Cursor() As Long Dim Pos As POINTAPI, lngDc As Long
lngDc = GetWindowDC(0) GetCursorPos Pos Get_Color_Under_Cursor = GetPixel(lngDc, Pos.x, Pos.y)
End Function </lang>
Yabasic
<lang Yabasic>open window 100, 100 backcolor 255, 0, 0 clear window color 0, 255, 0 fill rectangle 50, 50, 75, 75
x = 60 : y = 60
s$ = right$(getbit$(x, y, x, y), 6) blue = dec(right$(s$, 2)) green = dec(mid$(s$, 3, 2)) red = dec(left$(s$, 2))
print red, " ", green, " ", blue</lang>
ZX Spectrum Basic
The built-in function POINT (x,y)
returns 0 if the pixel at x,y is set to the relevant PAPER
colour, or 1 if it is set to the INK
colour. (Note that there can only be a maximum of two colours in each 8x8-pixel section of the screen.)
C
<lang c>
- include <X11/Xlib.h>
void get_pixel_color (Display *d, int x, int y, XColor *color) {
XImage *image; image = XGetImage (d, RootWindow (d, DefaultScreen (d)), x, y, 1, 1, AllPlanes, XYPixmap); color->pixel = XGetPixel (image, 0, 0); XFree (image); XQueryColor (d, DefaultColormap(d, DefaultScreen (d)), color);
}
// Your code XColor c; get_pixel_color (display, 30, 40, &c); printf ("%d %d %d\n", c.red, c.green, c.blue); </lang>
(Linux users, see grabc.) <lang c>#include <Windows.h>
COLORREF getColorAtCursor(void) {
POINT p; COLORREF color; HDC hDC; BOOL b;
/* Get the device context for the screen */ hDC = GetDC(NULL); if (hDC == NULL) return CLR_INVALID;
/* Get the current cursor position */ b = GetCursorPos(&p); if (!b) return CLR_INVALID;
/* Retrieve the color at that position */ color = GetPixel(hDC, p.x, p.y);
/* Release the device context again */ ReleaseDC(GetDesktopWindow(), hDC);
return color;
}</lang>
C++/CLI
<lang cpp>using namespace System; using namespace System::Drawing; using namespace System::Windows::Forms;
[STAThreadAttribute] int main() { Point^ MousePoint = gcnew Point(); Control^ TempControl = gcnew Control(); MousePoint = TempControl->MousePosition; Bitmap^ TempBitmap = gcnew Bitmap(1,1); Graphics^ g = Graphics::FromImage(TempBitmap); g->CopyFromScreen((Point)MousePoint, Point(0, 0), Size(1, 1)); Color color = TempBitmap->GetPixel(0,0); Console::WriteLine("R: "+color.R.ToString()); Console::WriteLine("G: "+color.G.ToString()); Console::WriteLine("B: "+color.B.ToString()); }</lang>
C#
<lang csharp>using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms;
class Program {
static Color GetPixel(Point position) { using (var bitmap = new Bitmap(1, 1)) { using (var graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap)) { graphics.CopyFromScreen(position, new Point(0, 0), new Size(1, 1)); } return bitmap.GetPixel(0, 0); } }
static void Main() { Console.WriteLine(GetPixel(Cursor.Position)); }
}</lang> Sample output: <lang>Color [A=255, R=243, G=242, B=231]</lang>
Clojure
<lang lisp>(defn get-color-at [x y]
(.getPixelColor (java.awt.Robot.) x y))</lang>
Common Lisp
Using Allegro and their Common Graphics package <lang lisp>(in-package :cg-user)
(defun print-hex (n)
(let ((*print-base* 16.) (*print-radix* t)) (print n)) t)
(defun get-byte (n byte)
(logand (ash n (* byte -8)) #xFF))
(defun get-pixel (x y)
(let ((pixval (caar (contents (get-screen-pixmap :box (make-box x y (+ x 1) (+ y 1))))))) (mapcar #'(lambda (i) (get-byte pixval i)) '(2 1 0 3))))
(defun get-mouse-pixel ()
(let ((pos (cursor-position (screen *system*)))) (get-pixel (position-x pos) (position-y pos))))
(print-hex (get-mouse-pixel))</lang>
Sample output: (values are in RGBA order): <lang lisp>(#xe0 #x43 #x43 #xff)</lang>
Delphi
<lang Delphi> program ScreenPixel;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
Windows, SysUtils, Graphics;
// Use this function in a GUI application to return the color
function GetPixelColourAsColor(const PixelCoords: TPoint): TColor;
var
dc: HDC;
begin
// Get Device Context of windows desktop dc := GetDC(0); // Read the color of the pixel at the given coordinates Result := GetPixel(dc,PixelCoords.X,PixelCoords.Y);
end;
// Use this function to get a string representation of the current colour function GetPixelColourAsString(const PixelCoords: TPoint): string; var
r,g,b: Byte; col: TColor;
begin
col := GetPixelColourAsColor(PixelCoords);
// Convert the Delphi TColor value to it's RGB components r := col and $FF; g := (col shr 8) and $FF; b := (col shr 16) and $FF;
// Format the result Result := 'R('+IntToStr(r)+') G('+IntToStr(g)+') G('+IntToStr(b)+')';
{ Alternatively, format the result as follows to get a string representation of the Delphi TColor value
Result := ColorToString(GetPixel(dc,curP.X,curP.Y)); }
end;
var
s: string; P: TPoint;
begin
s := ;
Writeln('Move mouse over a pixel. Hit return to get colour of selected pixel.');
repeat Readln(s); if s = then begin GetCursorPos(P); Writeln('Colour at cursor position X:'+ IntToStr(P.X)+' Y:'+ IntToStr(P.Y) +' = '+ GetPixelColourAsString(P) ); Writeln(); Writeln('Move mouse and hit enter again.'); end; until SameText(s,'quit');
end. </lang>
Example output:
Move mouse over a pixel. Hit return to get colour of selected pixel. Colour at cursor position X:429 Y:161 = R(0) G(0) B(0) Move mouse and hit enter again. Colour at cursor position X:942 Y:358 = R(182) G(206) B(231) Move mouse and hit enter again. Colour at cursor position X:704 Y:103 = R(240) G(240) B(240) Move mouse and hit enter again. Colour at cursor position X:2756 Y:59 = R(250) G(196) B(182)
F#
<lang fsharp>open System.Drawing open System.Windows.Forms
let GetPixel x y =
use img = new Bitmap(1,1) use g = Graphics.FromImage(img) g.CopyFromScreen(new Point(x,y), new Point(0,0), new Size(1,1)) let clr = img.GetPixel(0,0) (clr.R, clr.G, clr.B)
let GetPixelAtMouse () =
let pt = Cursor.Position GetPixel pt.X pt.Y</lang>
Go
<lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"
)
func main() {
// get position of mouse cursor x, y := robotgo.GetMousePos()
// get color of pixel at that position color := robotgo.GetPixelColor(x, y) fmt.Printf("Color of pixel at (%d, %d) is 0x%s\n", x, y, color)
}</lang>
- Output:
Sample output:
Color of pixel at (659, 253) is 0x300a24
Icon and Unicon
Icon and Unicon don't have direct access to the screen; however, we can read the colour of of a maximal sized window instead. The graphics procedure generates all pixels from a rectangular selection as a comma separated string with RGB values. <lang Icon>link graphics,printf
procedure main()
WOpen("canvas=hidden") # hide for query height := WAttrib("displayheight") - 45 # adjust for ... width := WAttrib("displaywidth") - 20 # ... window 7 borders WClose(&window) W := WOpen("size="||width||","||height,"bg=black") | stop("Unable to open window") every 1 to 10 do { # generate some random rectangles within the frame x := ?width y := ?(height-100) WAttrib("fg="||?["red","green","blue","purple","yellow"]) FillRectangle(x,x+50,y,y+50) } while Event() do printf("x=%d,y=%d pixel=%s\n",&x,&y,Pixel(&x,&y,&x,&y)) WDone(W) # q to exit
end </lang>
graphics.icn provides graphics printf.icn provides printf
Sample Output:
x=943,y=946 pixel=0,0,65535 x=658,y=610 pixel=47802,0,65535 x=934,y=487 pixel=0,0,0
Java
<lang java>public static Color getColorAt(int x, int y){
return new Robot().getPixelColor(x, y);
}</lang>
Julia
<lang julia>
- Windows GDI version
function getpixelcolors(x, y)
hdc = ccall((:GetDC, "user32.dll"), UInt32, (UInt32,), 0) pxl = ccall((:GetPixel, "gdi32.dll"), UInt32, (UInt32, Cint, Cint), hdc, Cint(x), Cint(y)) return pxl & 0xff, (pxl >> 8) & 0xff, (pxl >> 16) & 0xff
end
const x = 120 const y = 100 cols = getpixelcolors(x, y) println("At screen point (x=$x, y=$y) the color RGB components are red: $(cols[1]), green: $(cols[2]), and blue: $(cols[3])")
</lang>
- Output:
At screen point (x=120, y=100) the color RGB components are red: 1, green: 36, and blue: 86
Kotlin
<lang scala>import java.awt.*
fun getMouseColor(): Color {
val location = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().location return getColorAt(location.x, location.y)
}
fun getColorAt(x: Int, y: Int): Color {
return Robot().getPixelColor(x, y)
}</lang>
Lingo
<lang lingo>on getScreenPixelColor (x, y)
sx = xtra("ScrnXtra3").new() img = sx.ScreenToImage(rect(x, y, x+1, y+1)) return img.getPixel(0, 0)
end</lang>
Logo
CLEARSCREEN SHOW PIXEL [255 255 255]
M2000 Interpreter
Colors is M2000 have a negative value for RGB, or positive for default colors (0 to 15 are the default colors). Also numbers above 0x80000000 (is a positive number), are Windows colors too. Point return a negative value so we have to make it positive to get the RGB value where Red is the least significant byte. Html color has R as the most significant byte (of three), so to display properly we have to use a mix of Right$(),Mid$() and Left$() functions on string representation on color$. <lang M2000 Interpreter> Module CheckColor {
\\ Print hex code for color, and html code for color Every 25 { move mouse.x, mouse.y color$=Hex$(-point, 3) ' point has a negative value Print Over "0x"+color$+", #"+Right$(color$,2)+Mid$(color$, 3,2)+Left$(color$,2) if mouse<>0 then exit } Print
} CheckColor </lang>
Mathematica
<lang Mathematica>getPixel[{x_?NumberQ, y_?NumberQ}, screenNumber_Integer: 1] := ImageValue[CurrentScreenImage[n], {x, y}]</lang>
Nim
<lang nim>import gtk2, gdk2, gdk2pixbuf gtk2.nim_init()
proc getPixelColor(x, y: int32): auto =
var p = pixbufNew(COLORSPACE_RGB, false, 8, 1, 1) discard p.getFromDrawable(getDefaultRootWindow().Drawable, getDefaultScreen().getSystemColormap(), x, y, 0, 0, 1, 1) result = cast[tuple[r, g, b: uint8]](p.getPixels[])
echo getPixelColor(0, 0)</lang>
Perl
This example works with MacOS, customize with the appropriate screencapture utility for other OSes. <lang perl>use strict; use warnings; use GD;
my $file = '/tmp/one-pixel-screen-capture.png';
system "screencapture -R 123,456,1,1 $file";
my $image = GD::Image->newFromPng($file); my $index = $image->getPixel(0,0); my($red,$green,$blue) = $image->rgb($index); print "RGB: $red, $green, $blue\n";
unlink $file;</lang>
- Output:
RGB: 20, 2, 124
Perl 6
This example works with MacOS, customize with the appropriate screencapture utility for other OSes. <lang perl6>use GD::Raw;
my $file = '/tmp/one-pixel-screen-capture.png';
qqx/screencapture -R 123,456,1,1 $file/;
my $fh = fopen($file, "rb") or die; my $image = gdImageCreateFromPng($fh); my $pixel = gdImageGetPixel($img, 0, 0); my ($red,$green,$blue) =
gdImageRed( $image, $pixel), gdImageGreen($image, $pixel), gdImageBlue( $image, $pixel);
say "RGB: $red, $green, $blue";
fclose($fh); unlink $file;</lang>
- Output:
RGB: 20, 2, 124
Alternately, a version that should work in any X11 environment. Needs X11::xdo and MagickWand installed.
Perl 6
<lang perl6>#!/usr/bin/env perl6
signal(SIGINT).tap: { sleep .1; cleanup(); print "\n" xx 50, "\e[H\e[J"; exit(0) }
multi MAIN () {
use X11::libxdo; my $xdo = Xdo.new; my ($lx, $ly) = 0, 0; loop { sleep .1; my ($x, $y, $) = $xdo.get-mouse-location; next if $lx == $x and $ly == $y; ($lx, $ly) = $x, $y; display $x, $y, |get-pixel($x, $y); }
}
my %*SUB-MAIN-OPTS = :named-anywhere;
multi MAIN (
Int $x, #= Integer x coordinate to pick Int $y, #= Integer y coordinate to pick $q = False #= Boolean "quiet" mode, set truthy for decimal values, set to h for hex values ) { my ($red, $green, $blue) = get-pixel($x, $y);
if $q { $q.lc eq 'h' ?? ( printf "%02X:%02X:%02X\n", $red, $green, $blue ) !! ( printf "%03d:%03d:%03d\n", $red, $green, $blue ); } else { display($x, $y, $red, $green, $blue); cleanup(); } exit(0);
}
sub get-pixel ($x, $y) {
my $xcolor = qqx/import -window root -crop 1x1+{$x-1 max 0}+{$y-2 max 0} -depth 8 txt:-/ .comb(/<?after '#'><xdigit> ** 6/);
|$xcolor.comb(2)».parse-base(16);
}
sub display ($x, $y, $r, $g, $b) {
print "\e[?25l\e[48;2;0;0;0m\e[38;2;255;255;255m\e[H\e[J"; printf " x: %4d y: $y\n", $x; printf " RGB: %03d:%03d:%03d \n HEX: %02X:%02X:%02X\n", $r, $g, $b, $r, $g, $b; print "\e[38;2;{$r};{$g};{$b}m ", ('█' x 18 xx 6).join("\n "), "\n\n";
}
sub cleanup { print "\e[0m\e[?25h" }</lang>
Phix
<lang Phix>integer {r,g,b} = im_pixel(image, x, y)</lang> An example of this in use can be found in demo/pGUI/simple_paint.exw
PHP
<lang php>$img = imagegrabscreen(); $color = imagecolorat($im, 10, 50); imagedestroy($im);</lang>
PicoLisp
Using 'grabc' as recommended in the C solution <lang PicoLisp>(in '(grabc)
(mapcar hex (cdr (line NIL 1 2 2 2))) )</lang>
Output:
73,61,205 -> (73 61 205)
Processing
Access any pixel value on the sketch canvas. A color in Processing is a 32-bit int, organized in four components, alpha red green blue, as AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGBBBBBBBB. Each component is 8 bits (a number between 0 and 255), and can be accessed with alpha(), red(), green(), blue().
<lang processing>void draw(){
color c = get(mouseX,mouseY); println(c, red(c), green(c), blue(c));
}</lang>
For greater speed, pixels may be looked up by index in the pixels[] array, and color components may be retrieved by bit-shifting.
<lang processing>void draw(){
loadPixels(); color c = pixels[mouseY * width + mouseX]; println(c, c >> 16 & 0xFF, c >> 8 & 0xFF, c >> 8 & 0xFF);
}</lang>
Python
<lang python>def get_pixel_colour(i_x, i_y): import win32gui i_desktop_window_id = win32gui.GetDesktopWindow() i_desktop_window_dc = win32gui.GetWindowDC(i_desktop_window_id) long_colour = win32gui.GetPixel(i_desktop_window_dc, i_x, i_y) i_colour = int(long_colour) return (i_colour & 0xff), ((i_colour >> 8) & 0xff), ((i_colour >> 16) & 0xff)
print get_pixel_colour(0, 0)</lang>
only
<lang python>def get_pixel_colour(i_x, i_y): import PIL.ImageGrab return PIL.ImageGrab.grab().load()[i_x, i_y]
print get_pixel_colour(0, 0)</lang>
<lang python>def get_pixel_colour(i_x, i_y): import PIL.Image # python-imaging import PIL.ImageStat # python-imaging import Xlib.display # python-xlib o_x_root = Xlib.display.Display().screen().root o_x_image = o_x_root.get_image(i_x, i_y, 1, 1, Xlib.X.ZPixmap, 0xffffffff) o_pil_image_rgb = PIL.Image.fromstring("RGB", (1, 1), o_x_image.data, "raw", "BGRX") lf_colour = PIL.ImageStat.Stat(o_pil_image_rgb).mean return tuple(map(int, lf_colour))
print get_pixel_colour(0, 0)</lang>
<lang python>def get_pixel_colour(i_x, i_y): import gtk # python-gtk2 o_gdk_pixbuf = gtk.gdk.Pixbuf(gtk.gdk.COLORSPACE_RGB, False, 8, 1, 1) o_gdk_pixbuf.get_from_drawable(gtk.gdk.get_default_root_window(), gtk.gdk.colormap_get_system(), i_x, i_y, 0, 0, 1, 1) return tuple(o_gdk_pixbuf.get_pixels_array().tolist()[0][0])
print get_pixel_colour(0, 0)</lang>
<lang python>def get_pixel_colour(i_x, i_y): import PyQt4.QtGui # python-qt4 app = PyQt4.QtGui.QApplication([]) long_qdesktop_id = PyQt4.QtGui.QApplication.desktop().winId() long_colour = PyQt4.QtGui.QPixmap.grabWindow(long_qdesktop_id, i_x, i_y, 1, 1).toImage().pixel(0, 0) i_colour = int(long_colour) return ((i_colour >> 16) & 0xff), ((i_colour >> 8) & 0xff), (i_colour & 0xff)
print get_pixel_colour(0, 0)</lang>
Racket
See get-pixel-color.rkt.
REXX
This program only works
- Personal REXX or
- PC/REXX
This REXX version uses the position of the cursor.
The REXX program converts the hexadecimal attribute of the character at the location of the cursor to a familiar name of a color. <lang rexx>/*REXX program obtains the cursor position (within it's window) and displays it's color.*/ parse value cursor() with r c . /*get cursor's location in DOS screen. */
hue=scrRead(r, c, 1, 'A') /*get color of the cursor's location. */ if hue=='00'x then color= 'black' /*or dark grey, dark gray. */ if hue=='01'x then color= 'darkblue' if hue=='02'x then color= 'darkgreen' if hue=='03'x then color= 'darkturquoise' /*or dark cyan. */ if hue=='04'x then color= 'darkred' /*or maroon. */ if hue=='05'x then color= 'darkmagenta' /*or dark pink. */ if hue=='06'x then color= 'orange' /*or dark yellow, orage, brown. */ if hue=='07'x then color= 'gray' /*or grey, gray, dark white. */ if hue=='08'x then color= 'gray' /*or grey, gray, dark white. */ if hue=='09'x then color= 'blue' /*or bright blue. */ if hue=='0A'x then color= 'green' /*or bright green. */ if hue=='0B'x then color= 'turquoise' /*or bright turquoise, cyan, britecyan.*/ if hue=='0C'x then color= 'red' /*or bright red. */ if hue=='0D'x then color= 'magenta' /*or bright magenta, pink, brite pink. */ if hue=='0E'x then color= 'yellow' /*or bright yellow. */ if hue=='0F'x then color= 'white' /*or bright, brite white. */ say 'screen location ('r","c') color is:' color /*display color of char at row, column.*/</lang>
- output:
screen location (33,1) color is: yellow
Ring
<lang ring>
- Project : Color of a screen pixel
Load "gamelib.ring" r = 0 g = 0 b = 0 al_init() al_init_image_addon() display = al_create_display(1000,800) al_set_target_bitmap(al_get_backbuffer(display)) al_clear_to_color(al_map_rgb(255,255,255)) image = al_load_bitmap("stock.jpg") al_draw_rotated_bitmap(image,0,0,250,250,150,0) al_draw_scaled_bitmap(image,0,0,250,250,20,20,400,400,0) ring_getpixel(image,300,300) see "r = " + r + nl see "g = " + g + nl see "b = " + b + nl al_flip_display() al_rest(2) al_destroy_bitmap(image) al_destroy_display(display)
func ring_getpixel(image,x,y)
newcolor = al_get_pixel(image,x,y) r=copy(" ",4) g=copy(" ",4) b=copy(" ",4) p1 = VarPtr("r","float") p2 = VarPtr("g","float") p3 = VarPtr("b","float") al_unmap_rgb_f(newcolor, p1 , p2 , p3 ) r = bytes2float(r) g = bytes2float(g) b = bytes2float(b) return [r,g,b]
</lang> Output:
r = 0.42 g = 0.29 b = 0.27
Ruby
This example requires ImageMagick >= 6.2.10 (works on X11, unsure about other platforms).
<lang ruby>module Screen
IMPORT_COMMAND = '/usr/bin/import'
# Returns an array with RGB values for the pixel at the given coords def self.pixel(x, y) if m = `#{IMPORT_COMMAND} -silent -window root -crop 1x1+#{x.to_i}+#{y.to_i} -depth 8 txt:-`.match(/\((\d+),(\d+),(\d+)\)/) m[1..3].map(&:to_i) else false end end
end</lang>
Scala
<lang Scala>def getColorAt(x: Int, y: Int): Color = new Robot().getPixelColor(x, y)</lang>
Tcl
Works only on X11 or OSX with Xquartz. <lang tcl>package require Tcl 8.5 package require Tk
- Farm out grabbing the screen to an external program.
- If it was just for a Tk window, we'd use the tkimg library instead
proc grabScreen {image} {
set pipe [open {|xwd -root -silent | convert xwd:- ppm:-} rb] $image put [read $pipe] close $pipe
}
- Get the RGB data for a particular pixel (global coords)
proc getPixelAtPoint {x y} {
set buffer [image create photo] grabScreen $buffer set data [$image get $x $y] image delete $buffer return $data
}
- Demo...
puts [format "pixel at mouse: (%d,%d,%d)" \
{*}[getPixelAtPoint {*}[winfo pointerxy .]]]</lang>
XPL0
Color gets either 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 16, or 24 significant bits depending on the current graphic mode enabled on an IBM-PC compatible machine with VESA graphics.
<lang XPL0>code ReadPix=44; int Color, X, Y; Color:= ReadPix(X, Y);</lang>