Request: Add possibility to get the color value using CLI

[iam12pm]

Hi @vaxerski I am working on one project related to ambilight, due to Wayland security policies it is hard to capture the screen (especially fast) and your project looks as a good solution which may not even extended in general to make everything working.
There are several options which may work. Mainly remove colour picking using mouse and instead use another parameters.

1. Receive the pixel colour by defining the pixel position in the matrix for example -p= 100, 100
2. Receive the whole color matrix of the whole screen which I believe stored in screenBuffer
3. Option define the sector (honestly having 1 or 2 will give me possibility to fork the project and right this functionality to contribute to the project)

I have not so much experience with C or C++ and honestly I have lack of understanding of how lambda functions is working to help you extend the functionality.
If you can help me with the implementation I would really appreciate.
Let me know if you have any questions.

[iam12pm]

I believe option 2 is even better, because I can help after that with option 1 :)

[vaxerski]

why not just use the protocol directly? There's no magic there, hyprpicker just uses https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1

[iam12pm]

@vaxerski the problem is that it will be even harder to me to implement :)
I am aware about this functionality but honestly it will take to much time to me to make it work, I am sure if you are not going to work on this item it will take less time for me to modify your solution to achieve desired state

[vaxerski]

I mean yeah, what format would we pass this in? Just raw pixel bytes?

[iam12pm]

To me the best will be the matrix of RGB values or HEX as it works now, the only point is to get the whole screen or choose the sector using pixel coordinates without mouse interaction and screen "freeze".

[iam12pm]

Hi @vaxerski may you just provide a short update if you have any plans on this topic so far?

[vaxerski]

I'll get to it eventually, quite busy right now, just gotten back to my desktop yesterday after holidays.