
Originally Posted by
kongking
Speaking about processor power, which takes more, bitmaps or DTM's?
In the worst case, checking a location for a map could require checking all pixels of the bitmap, or all the points in the DTM, for every candidate point. The DTM would be significantly faster in this case, due to its small size (maybe 5 spread out pts) as opposed to the bitmap (possibly 5x5 square = 25 pts).
Realistically however, these checks short circuit very very soon. Most points on your screen will fail to match either the DTM or the bitmap after even the first or second pixel checked. DTMs are especially good for this, and bitmaps are slightly worse because you may have locally similar regions in false positives.
So, DTMs have an advantage. However, the practical difference is not too significant. I certainly (and I suppose this is just personal opinion) dislike people who harshly criticize bitmaps. Maybe they had bad experiences in the past from large bitmaps with high false positive rates (the biggest bottlenecks in bitmaps). Sure they're slower in theory, sometimes even practice, but the difference is not necessarily practically significant.
Now, I need to know the command(s) for clicking the button, because im not sure if the uptext works on this new text.(I don't want to know the dtm/bmp from string method of finding the image and then clicking it, since its not very efficient.)
First of all, what everyone above me said. The location is constant. If you know the interface is up, then it's quite safe just to do a mousebox. Of course, you should verify that it is indeed up through some combination of visual and uptext checking, and that you didn't either lag or accidentally miss some previous clicks.
If you are interested in finding its location, keep in mind that first of all it's clearly in the chatbox region, and second of all it looks like pretty much nothing else. A strategically chosen small bitmap or DTM which focuses on certain elements of the image (say, a bit of the cake dough combined with a bit of the cake pan rim) is going to be very specific.
If the string you want to find onscreen is known, and you need it to find it very often, you may benefit from a premade bitmap. This is the sort of thing you see in, for example, autominers for slightly faster dropping. You just cut out a small section of the text you're interested in as a bitmap. It doesn't have to be full height, and certainly not full width, as the words in their entirety. Because the words have very specific line shapes that nothing else will really share.
Wow. I've been gone a very long time indeed. So much has changed.