Macro help needed

[Fenryr]

Ok, i need help with a few macro/bot-related things so ill put them all here.

how do i make a program that can

1. Find a certain color on the screen and click on it, or at least output the coordinates. (for example if i wanted the program to click on every pixel that had a hex color code of 010000
2. Move the cursor to a point on the screen (from x,y coordinates) and then click.
3. Focus on a window using either the window text or preferrably process name, and send keys to it.
4. use hotkeys,i want to be able to activate a function or sub through a hotkey

Hopefully someone can answer these questions, +rep if you can

edit: visual basic 2008 btw

[freakyflow]

auto-it does all this.
AutoIt Script Home Page

or
AutohotKey

If you want to write your own from scratch Visual Basic is easiest most effective for what you want.

[Fenryr]

i know auto-it does all of this, but i want to learn how to do it in visual basic, thanks anyway though.

[freakyflow]

Well to answer you more to help out. There are many different VB api's than can do the stuff your asking.

1. This sounds like somewhat of a challenge to find ALL colors and click them, whats the point in that anyhow, seems confusing. For macro purposes it would be easier to use the "getpixel" command along with the " getdc" to co-ordinated a specific spot.

2. This is easy using "getdc" or "GetCursorPos" and using "mouse_event" to control the mouse.

3. Can use "GetWindow" or "EnumWindows" or "Findwindow" or "Getclass", as you can see there are many ways to do this.

4. I'd look at the "RegisterHotKey" then just automate it using the keyboard or whatever.

If your familiar with doing this in Auto-It it will be much easier to do, Id suggest you try it out and code a auto-it .exe from scratch to get the hang of it.

cheers hope this helps.