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Some General Help For a New Learner :)

Asked by Mark Bergh

Hi Everyone, I just found out about Sikuli yesterday.... and it's AWESOME but I don't have a lot of experience with Python or any other programming language.... yet :)

I have a pretty simple thing to accomplish but I'm confused, all of this is so new to me. Basically this is what I want to do:

1. Look for an image and double click on it
2. Wait 20 seconds

(I would like steps 1 and 2 to repeat for 5 minutes)

That all seems pretty simple but I don't know how to loop it for 5 minutes.

I also want this to be running the whole time too:

3. If the image doesn't appear for more than 30 seconds, do another click and repeat from step 1

Can someone please show me what this code should look like? I would really appreciate it. I know this is probably a really dumb question but I just got into this yesterday. Thanks for your time

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

If I understood right:

import time

max = 5*60 # 5 minutes in seconds
start = time.time() # now
while (time.time() - start) < max: # loop 5 minutes
    if exists(<image>, 30): # wait max 30seconds for image
        click(getLastMatch()) # click it
        wait(20) # wait 20 secs and loop again
    else: # did not come within 30 seconds
        click(<image1>)
        # loop again

the <image...> have to be replaced by the respective shots.

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Mark Bergh (beinthesun) said : 		#2

Hi RaiMan, thanks for the quick answer :)

Basically I want the whole thing to last 5 minutes, even if the image doesn't come within 30 seconds. If I'm not mistaken, the way you explained it, the whole script would stop after the 30 second time out, right?

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#3

--- the whole script would stop after the 30 second time out, right?
no ;-)

This is a speciality of Python: indentation
Where other programming/scripting languages use some kind of bracketing Python uses indentation, to show, which of the following statements belong to a block like while, if, else def, class, .... (see faq 1800 to avoid traps for newbees)

so some more buzz with the above example:

max = 5*60 # 5 minutes in seconds
start = time.time(); # now
# loop:
while (time.time() - start) < max: # loop 5 minutes
    if exists(<image>, 30): # wait max 30seconds for image
        click(getLastMatch()) # click it
        wait(20) # wait 20 secs
    # end-if, skip else
    else: # did not come within 30 seconds
        click(<image1>)
    # end-else
    # end if-else
# end-while go back to loop
# AFTER while loop because same indent
print("you will see me after 5 minutes")

on looping see faq 1437

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Mark Bergh (beinthesun) said : 		#4

Thanks a lot. I got a long way to go. I appreciate your help :)