Automated "Simon Game" Player

[DoktorD1313]

Hi there everyone,

What I'm trying to go is create a program that will automatically play the classic "Simon" game that will be run by another program.

Basically, the game will display four circle outlines and will fill them one at a time in a pattern.

I want this program to monitor the area of the game for changes and record them so it can reproduce the pattern on its turn...

I found this thread very helpful. I should be able to use this method because the images of the filled circles will be the same every time, so I can just compare them to a saved .bmp.

The part I need some help on is how to get my program to constantly monitor the selected area. Because it will be changing the filled circle, I cant just have my program scan the image once.. It has to be constantly monitored for the change. I'm open to pretty much any ideas on how I can make that happen.

If I've been unclear at all about what I want to happen, let me know and I'll try to clarify anything that I've been fuzzy on.

Thanks!

 

[anthony.selby]

I think your making it hard on your self ... I would make each circle its own picture box and just store the order and number of times the picturebox was clicked in the click event

 

[DoktorD1313]

Well the thing is, the "simon" game itself is not my program. The program I'm trying to create won't be responding to mouse clicks from a human player, it will be responding to a program controlled player. So theres nothing to read other than the images on the screen. Thats my big problem.