Control.CompareImage does not work

[chhb_fancy]

The following is my code:

Form Calculator = Application.FindFormTitle("calculator", SearchMatchMode.MatchExact,true,5000);

if(Calculator != null){

Calculator.CaptureImage("D:\\RanorexProject\\Test\\test.bmp");
bool bResult = Calculator.CompareImage("D:\\RanorexProject\\Test\\test.bmp");

}

But the result of 'bResult' alreadys returns false.
Is this a bug or haven't I used the function correctly?

I'm using v1.5 trial version on Windows XP SP3.

Any help is appreciated.

[Skarlso]

First:

YOu don't have to use if(Calculator != null){ because ranorex throws an error if the requested windows does not appear in the set time. By you it's 5000 milliseconds.

Second:

I agreed. This indeed does not work.. I tried:

form.CaptureImage();
bool compare = form.CompareImage();

if (compare) {
Logger.Info("Test Passed");
} else {
Logger.Error("Test Failed");
}

This should compare the same images, but it throws an error that they are not identical. I thougth maybe it is the opposite and also tried a sure to fail test. Which failed. So something else is the problem.

[chhb_fancy]

Thanks Skarlso for your response.

Is there any solution for this?

[Skarlso]

Unfortunatley no... I could not get it to work..

[Support Team]

Sorry, there's an error in the documentation of the Control.CaptureImage(string fileName) method. Unlike stated in the documentation of this method, the image format is not(!) determined by the file extension. In fact, the saved image is always encoded as a PNG image.

Unfortunately, the CompareImage and FindImage methods only take BMP images as valid inputs. However, there's a workaround using the Control.CaptureImage() method that returns a Bitmap instance:

[Skarlso]

Great! That worked!

Thank you very much!
Gergely.

[chhb_fancy]

Thanks Alex for your answer.

Now is working.

If I just wanna compare a rectangle of the image, not entire image.

for example:
Entire image rect: (2, 114) - (1261, 970) 1259 x 856
I wanna verify rect: (100, 100) - (200, 200) 100x 100

Is there any method for this? Any help is appreciated.

[Skarlso]

CompareImage supports a parameter called Location which defines the upper left corner of the image to be compared..
And then you can add the Size and the Offset to. This should give you enough coordinates to enter a rectangle you want to compare.

[Support Team]

Well, the CompareImage method supports a Location parameter, however, only for comparing a control with an image on screen.

For comparing a control to an image loaded from a file you should first generate the clipped image. Then use the CompareImage(string imageFileName, Point offset) method to compare that image to the control at a certain offset in the control.

E.g. first make the 100 x 100 image and then call CompareImage("image.bmp", new Point(50, 50)) to compare pixels (50, 50) to (150, 150) of the control to the image.

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Support Team

[chhb_fancy]

Thanks Alex for your response.

But how to generate the clipped image?

I couldn't find any method to do it. Do you mean that I should use the third-party tool to do so, such as Photoshop?

[Support Team]

Well, you could use a 3rd party tool, but .NET works as well. There are dozens of samples on the internet on how to crop an image. The first I found is this one.

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Support Team

[chhb_fancy]

Thank you very much. Alex