Reading text from a different game client.

I attempted to do this years ago, and failed. What I'm trying to do is read a line in the chat box by using bit masks of the font. If there is a better way than that, please let me know.
The game client looks like this:


I also wrote up some psuedo-code for this:

Code:

load font masks
verify status of EO window
switch to appropriate tab

loop, get pixel color of first pixel in chat box,
each iteration advance on the x axis by one, until color of font detected
try all bitmap masks against previous x coordinate until matching mask is found
x++
repeat above until reaching the end of the chatbox

Is there any better way to accomplish this? The reason it failed before was because of letters like "i" matching when the letter was actually "l", causing it to be extremely inaccurate. Any help is appreciated.

 

There's really no simpler way to read or identify text. If you have to then you may want to make use of 'ands' and 'nots' to make sure you are reading the right letter. Something like this:

Code:

if (BitmapMaskFound(x, y, i, x1, y1, x2, y2)) then if (not (BitmapMaskFound(x, y, l, x-5, y-5, x+5, y+5))) then etc. 

It may take a little more time to process, but it will be more accurate. You can use the same idea to read letters in order.

 

Thanks. I'm going to make a basic prototype and see if it works, try tweaking it etc. I haven't done any pascal/SCAR in years though so this may be a bit difficult