Image Pro Plus macro. PLEASE HELP!

i'm using image pro plus 5.1 which is apparently VBA compatable.
i'm trying to write a program that will sample a grid of an image, getting a local average for each grid box and then find how many pixels are 30% brighter than that. then for the prog to add all those values together.
i'm having trouble reading the image (grayscale-8) into an array and then being able to call individual pixels. i trying to use ipDocGetArea, but i'm a novice at coding in general - one FORTRAN module, and 1 day of teach myself VBA!

please help


J x

does image pro have facility to record macros, like the office products?
if so try recording what you want to do, then editing the recorded code to get the results you want

pete

it can indeed record macros. what i want to do is add on one last bit to a recorded macro. i recorded a macro to process an image to show up defects on a fibre-optic plate, now i want to count how many pixels are in 3 different ranges of brightness: giving me a number representing low, med, and high shear in the fibre-optic.

below is the crucial bit of my code. i think there is a prob with the array...
i don't think i'm declaring it properly

Dim actdoc(200, 200) As Integer
Dim Reg As RECT

Dim Reg.Left = xpixel
Dim Reg.Right = xpixel+199
Dim Reg.bottom = ypixel
Dim Reg.top = ypixel+199
ret=IpDocGetArea(DOCSEL_ACTIVE,Reg,actdoc(i, j),0)

For xpixel = xstart To xstart+199

'gets the total of the pixels in the x column of sub area
For ypixel = ystart To ystart+199

subtotal=subtotal+actdoc(xpixel,ypixel)

Next ypixel

'totals All the columns of the Sub area
Next xpixel

localaverage=subtotal/40000



thanx

J x

Dim Reg.Left = xpixel
Dim Reg.Right = xpixel+199
Dim Reg.bottom = ypixel
Dim Reg.top = ypixel+199

i don't think this is right, the dim part should omited
reg.left = xpixel or even should it be xpixel = reg.left?

for xpixel = xstart to xstart + 199

also looks like it is incorrect, what is xstart? maybe
for i = xpixel to xpixel +199

same applies to
for ypixel

also you dim actdoc(200,200), but i cant see anywhere you assign any valuse to it, before call ipdocgetarea or values to i and j

i realise this is not all the code, so some of these observations may be totally incorrect
i am just trying to guess what you are wanting to do

thanx heaps westy!

taking out the dim part for the reg.s got me over some hurdles, then it told me something about an overfolowing array - but i got that fixed. :) so now i think probs solved for now.

J x