to find out how to get informations about a pixel

I am searching for a function to get the background color, the text color and the string which is on the pixel. Is there a function that does this? In the paintutils api is nothing…

It is not possible to know what is displayed without recording that information when it is drawn.

I'm not sure when it was added, but IIRC CC 1.79 (and possibly earlier?) have term.getTextColor(x, y) and term.getBackgroundColor(x, y) but no way to find out which character is on screen. As KingofGamesYami said, you'll need to record what's written to screen (when it's drawn) if you want to know what characters are where on screen.

EDIT: Correction - as noted below, getTextColor and getBackgroundColor don't use x,y coords.

Thanks for the information, guys! Would be very usefull to have a a function for this, like term.getPixelInformation or would it be paintutils.getPixelInformation?

If it did exist, it would be in the term API.

Dog, on 05 August 2017 - 06:28 PM said:

I'm not sure when it was added, but IIRC CC 1.79 (and possibly earlier?) have term.getTextColor(x, y) and term.getBackgroundColor(x, y) but no way to find out which character is on screen.

Added in 1.74, doesn't take an screen coordinate as an argument, gives the current colour (the one most resently set with the equivulent set function). [source - the wiki]

Lupus590, on 05 August 2017 - 09:07 PM said:

Dog, on 05 August 2017 - 06:28 PM said:

I'm not sure when it was added, but IIRC CC 1.79 (and possibly earlier?) have term.getTextColor(x, y) and term.getBackgroundColor(x, y) but no way to find out which character is on screen.

Added in 1.74, doesn't take an screen coordinate as an argument, gives the current colour (the one most resently set with the equivulent set function). [source - the wiki]

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks, Lupus :)/>

@OP It can be done if it's supported by the screen buffer that you are using.

I would use Lyqyd's Framebuffer, but I'm a bit bias to his stuff. You should be able to read the text from the buffer like so, fair warning I haven't tested this

local buf = framebuffer.new(sizeX, sizeY, colour, offsetX, offsetY)
--# you may want to write more stuff to the buffer here
buf.write("this is an example")
buf.buffer.text[x][y] --# should give you the character at that coorodinate
buf.buffer.textColor[x][y] --# same again for the text colour (British spelling for the win)
buf.buffer.backColor[x][y] --# I would help that you would be able to figure this one out