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VDict() broken on Mac?

Asked by xavier

Hi,

My environment:

OSX Maverick
Java 1.7.0_51_b13

On both Sikuli.IDE. 1.0.1 & sikuli.script.jar, I get the following error when initialising a = VDict() (other sikuli APIs are working fine)

[error] NameError ( name 'VDict' is not defined )

The command works fine on my previous sikuli version 903.

Is VDict() deprecated? or my syntax is wrong? or are there extra steps in the installation process? Anyway, I did a quick comparison between the 2 jars and found that VDict.py can no longer be found in version 1.01.

Thanks.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

Sorry, but VDict is no longer available.

What is your use case?

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#2

The reason:
It was a Python only implementation and it did not really make sense.

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xavier (xavier-tay) said : 		#3

I use Listener to monitor specific region for changes (region.onChange and region.observe) in the background, any change in the region will trigger an event where a snapshot is taken and compared to a list of predefined images (VDict) to determine what was changed.

Is there another way around this without using VDict?

Thanks.

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Best RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#4

Ok, interesting approach and usage of VDict.

images = [... some listed images ...]

changed = capture(changedRegion)
finderChanged = Finder(changed)
nImg = -1
for img in images:
    nImg += 1
    finderChanged.find(img)
    if finderChanged.hasNext(): break

# nImg contains the number of the image in the list

You might do it similar with a dictionary and finally get the matched images key, go go on with.

With this solution the listed images must be smaller (contained in the captured region) than the changedRegion.

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xavier (xavier-tay) said : 		#5

Thanks RaiMan, that solved my question.