SikuliX

IDE and Multiple Monitors

Asked by juillarr

Am I correct in saying that there is not a good way to handle multiple using thee GUI.

One can write the script to look for the 2nd montior, but not an easy way from the GUI to cause the "capture" process to run on the 2nd monitor. Almost seems like there should be a dynamic "Take screenshot" that provides a indication for the monitor.

Future feature with all the dual monitors on systems these days?

I haven't looked at the code yet to see how hard it would be to add.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

- Talking about the IDE?

- What system?

At least on Windows and Mac the monitor where you start the interactive capture is signaled with a red frame.
In any cases, the interactive capture is done on the screen, where you press the left mouse button.
(interactive capture means using one of the IDE capture buttons)

- talking about the internal capture funtion (Jython: capture(), Java: userCapture() ): here we have the same situation: it starts an interactive capture with the above

So it is not really clear, what you want.

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juillarr (juillardr) said : 		#2

I am evaluating Sikuli-IDE on a dual monitor Ubuntu 13.04 system, though my final target will be for a government funded project that runs under RedHat.

1) A comment under "Multi-Monitor Environments" documentation indicates that it is under construction. Any idea if there is any work being done in this area?

2) I do not have access to a MAC so I can not tell if it user error or not, but the "target offset" GUI does not seem exist on either Linux(somewhat expected) or Windows XP. Am I correct, or is it user error?

3) Under the Sikuli-API web page there is announcement of Sikuli-Slides. Is it a product spun off by another group? If not I would think it would take resources away from the Sikuli-IDE development, meaning the IDE would fall by the wayside.

I like the project so I hope the Linux support continues.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#3

--1. thanks for feedback .

--2. Sikuli-API ... Sikuli-Slides
It seems you are talking about Sikuli Java API (http://code.google.com/p/sikuli-api/) which is a Java only development, that can be used with Java and Java aware scripting language. It is to some extent feature but not API compatible to Sikuli X and has no IDE.
It is owned by Tom Yeh and his team at his university. He is one of the starting developers of SikuliX, but now concentrates on his own stuff.

--3. SikuliX developement
I have taken over the further development of SikuliX (https://github.com/RaiMan/SikuliX-IDE) and I will continue to support Windows, Mac and Linux.

--4. Multi-monitor on Linux
I have not tested any features yet in this area on Linux, but it should principally work. I have it on my list ;-)

--5. Target offset GUI
When you click on an image thumbnail in IDE, the Preview window with its 3 tabs should come up and the target offset should be selectable. Might be, that the related image must be visible on the screen in that moment.
This whole area of image attribute handling will be renewed with version 1.1 (fullscreen transparent overlay).

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juillarr (juillardr) said : 		#4

On the dual monitor Ubuntu Linux system, selection of a screen does not occur. Only one screen gets greyed out. I can force it to the other screen via a script and the "focus" seems then to stay on that window. All subsequent screen shot will be from that window.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#5

Thanks for feedback. I will check that the next days.

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