FindImagePos Needle file question.

skyyhacylon · Post by **skyyhacylon** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:50 am

I assume a 'needle' file will not read from the disk unless it is invoked somewhere, but on subsequent requests from the same line of code or requests made from a later point for the same needle file, does this read from the source location each time, or is it stored in memory? If not, is there a way to force a needle file into memory and check it from memory each time (in instances where it is necessary to use a lot of screen compares instead of keystrokes) without having to do something silly like put the needles in a ram drive partition?

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Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:26 am

The needle is always read in from disk. There is no way to keep it in and use it from memory. Not right now anyway. Actually, I suppose there is - create a RAM drive and put the needle files there. You could have the script do that at startup.

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skyyhacylon · Post by **skyyhacylon** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 5:03 am

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