claude21 Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 At first, I believed it should be pretty straightforward to do with autoit, but I'm amazed that this simple function isn't implemented... I'm trying to do stuff (database update from a text field control) when user click on a button on another app (not autoit own gui). I've no difficulties to get the text from the external app with something like :$str=ControlGetText($wintitle, "","[CLASS:appclass; INSTANCE:3]")and I can easily get the handle of the button too, but checking if a button was clicked on another app is not possible with built in functionsI've seen this thread here but doesn't apply for my case because it doesn't really check the button state. I've searched on google, and may be there is a clean way to do it with WM_COMMAND ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted January 3, 2010 Moderators Share Posted January 3, 2010 claude21,I believed it should be pretty straightforward to do with autoit, but I'm amazed that this simple function isn't implementedPerhaps because, as you have found, it is not as simple as that! One way I have used to see if a button is pressed in an external app is to check if anything else on the GUI changes. Does the button caption change? Does the status bar read differently? Does a child window open? Such things can be checked for and indicate that the button has been pressed.It is not quite what you wanted to hear, but I hope this helps.M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claude21 Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hi and thanks for you're time. Unfortunatly, there is not change in the GUI when the button is clicked, all the stuff is done underground. My only way is to catch that dawm button state. I don't really understand why a function like "ControlGetState" doesn't exists since WinGetState do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDeeW Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 I need to read the state of a button on another application. I was playing with the Window Info tool and saw the Style property changes from 0x54012001 to 0x5C012000, when the button goes from Enable to Disable. Have anyone else used this to detect disabled button? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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