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To speed up Sikuli execution, which would be better wait(sec) or exists(image,sec)?

Asked by Jeff Sant

I need to speed up my Sikuli script, as my script takes too much time while it opens a website and from that it moves to another and waits for the perticular option, though it is available on screen it clicks and wait.

So how to speed it up?

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Which would be better wait(sec) or exists(image,sec)?

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Best RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

-- wait(sec)
always waits the specified seconds.
If you want to wait for an image, use:
wait(image, sec)
which will constantly search for the image and return if found. If not found within the given time it ends the script with find failed.

-- exists(image,sec)
does the same as wait(image,sec), but does not throw FindFailed if not found. So it can be used in if/elif/else and while constructs.

*** speed up your script:
- never use wait(sec), always use exists(image,sec). But you need an image to wait for and guess a maximum waiting time.
- restrict the searches to smaller regions, which speeds up the find operation (up to ten times compared to large whole screen)

Find more hints in: faq https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+faq/1607

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Jeff Sant (sant-jeff) said : 		#2

Thanks RaiMan, that solved my question.