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I've been trying to figure out how to get a script to know when something has been said by an NPC that doesn't appear in the chatbox, and I stumbled upon the findText() function in the docs.

I also found this unresolved thread asking pretty much the same thing I am: https://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110143

So what I am trying to do is to let a script proceed when Pauline Polaris at Livid Farm says one of her phrases that resets the activity.

This is my function so far:

function proceed(): boolean;
var
  p: TPoint;
  i: integer;

begin
  if g <= 0 then
    writeLn('Waiting for advancement...');

  if (findText(p, ['verything''s advance', 'elp, please!'], [UpChars], mainScreen.getBounds())) then
  begin
    writeLn('The cycle has begun ...');
    result := true;
  end;

  if (findText(p, ['farm''s moved', 'next stage'], [UpChars], mainScreen.getBounds())) then
  begin
    writeLn('The cycle has begun ...');
    result := true;
  end;

  if (findText(p, ['ore spellcasting', 'required'], [UpChars], mainScreen.getBounds())) then
  begin
    writeLn('The cycle has begun ...');
    result := true;
  end;

  if (findText(p, ['ime for more work', 'Time for'], [UpChars], mainScreen.getBounds())) then
  begin
    writeLn('The cycle has begun ...');
    result := true;
  end;

  g := 1;
end;

The docs say the usage of findText() is:

findText(var p: TPoint; txt, fonts: TStringArray; searchBox: TBox)

Which is what I am doing, and I have tried several difference font types. However, the function just doesn't seem to respond to those actions once they happen in game.

Ideas?

Use UpCharsEx instead of UpChars :)


UpChars won't return any matches for Pauline's chat since, as you can see, they are quite different fonts.
Best of luck with the added Livid Farm functionality. If you're making a complete script I'm sure the community would be interested!

Edit: I see you said you already tried a bunch of font types. If UpCharsEx didn't work, then perhaps you can use OCR.

OCR Documentation

Tesseract is another option, but I believe it is a nightmare when the background is highly variable.

From: Clarity

Edit: I see you said you already tried a bunch of font types. If UpCharsEx didn't work, then perhaps you can use OCR.

OCR Documentation

I can safely say I have no idea how to implement this for what I want it to do… hmmm (Ideas anyone?)

From: Lama
I can safely say I have no idea how to implement this for what I want it to do… hmmm (Ideas anyone?)

repeat
  writeln(getTextAtEx(mainscreen.getBounds, 0, 0, 3, clYellow, 5, 'UpCharsEx'));
  wait(500);
until false;

Ran it, returned the following when she announced the next stage:

T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .
T h e f a r m ' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .

Returns a pretty accurate string. Especially if you narrow the search box, there's a lot you can do with this :)

I guess technically I could just tell the script to detect the color of the font, and not really much of what's in it (not a lot of people talk at livid farm, and it wouldn't be a big deal if they did).

Is there a function for detecting a font and it's color, but not necessarily what's in the string? Would I just use a findColorsTolerance(etc) function for mainScreen.getBounds() looking for clYellow? Or whatever value clYellow is.

From: Lama
I guess technically I could just tell the script to detect the color of the font, and not really much of what's in it (not a lot of people talk at livid farm, and it wouldn't be a big deal if they did).

Is there a function for detecting a font and it's color, but not necessarily what's in the string? Would I just use a findColorsTolerance(etc) function for mainScreen.getBounds() looking for clYellow? Or whatever value clYellow is.

Just wondering, did you not see @Clarity;'s post right above you?

From: elfyyy
Just wondering, did you not see @Clarity;'s post right above you?

I did, but I tried a few conditional statements regarding the information I got from that, and I couldn't get it to work.

From: Lama
I did, but I tried a few conditional statements regarding the information I got from that, and I couldn't get it to work.

if (getTextAtEx = 'T h e f a r m '' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .') then
  doSomething();

That didn't work?

From: Clarity

if (getTextAtEx = 'T h e f a r m '' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .') then
  doSomething();

That didn't work?

Wait, I don't need the entire

getTextAtEx(mainscreen.getBounds, 0, 0, 3, clYellow, 5, 'UpCharsEx') = 'T h e f a r m '' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .')

Function?

From: Lama
Wait, I don't need the entire

getTextAtEx(mainscreen.getBounds, 0, 0, 3, clYellow, 5, 'UpCharsEx') = 'T h e f a r m '' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .')

Function?

From: Clarity

if (getTextAtEx = 'T h e f a r m '' s m o v e d o n t o i t s n e x t s t a g e .') then
  doSomething();

That didn't work?

was just pseudo code.