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Hi, I am quite new to AutoIt.

First off all: Congratulations to this great program!

Second: I am working on automating a program written with M$ Visual Studio C. In general it is working fine but I got some problems with changing ControlIDs and ClassNameNNs!

Yesterday the script was working fine logging the desired data, today - without any change - the logged data contains wrong information.

Checked with AU3Info and found out that the ClassNameNNs changed from yesterday to today!

Has anybody got the same experience?

I wonder how to automate a program using "stealth" technology for its controls?

Thanks for any feedback.

Best Regards from Germany,

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Hi, I am quite new to AutoIt.

First off all: Congratulations to this great program!

Second: I am working on automating a program written with M$ Visual Studio C. In general it is working fine but I got some problems with changing ControlIDs and ClassNameNNs!

Yesterday the script was working fine logging the desired data, today - without any change - the logged data contains wrong information.

Checked with AU3Info and found out that the ClassNameNNs changed from yesterday to today!

Has anybody got the same experience?

I wonder how to automate a program using "stealth" technology for its controls?

Thanks for any feedback.

Best Regards from Germany,

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Can you give an example of what the ControlID's and the ClassNamesNN were today vs. yesterday? Also, I wrote a UDF I think (isn't that funny, if I hadn't I should) to get the ControlID or ClassNameNN by Client X/Y Pos that should work no?

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Here this should do it, you need to get the Client X and Y coord, just anywhere within that control is fine...

Opt('WinTitleMatchMode', 4)
Global $Control_To_Interact_With_Is = _CtrlGetByPos('classname=SciTEWindow', '', 829, 504, 0)
MsgBox(0, '', $Control_To_Interact_With_Is)

; 0 = return ClassNameNN / 1 = ControlID / 2 = Both (will need to parse to seperate)
Func _CtrlGetByPos($hWin, $sText = '', $iXPos = 0, $iYPos = 0, $iReturnType = 0)
    If IsString($hWin) Then $hWin = WinGetHandle($hWin)
    Local $sClassList = WinGetClassList($hWin), $hCtrlWnd
    Local $sSplitClass = StringSplit(StringTrimRight($sClassList, 1), @LF), $aReturn = ''
    For $iCount = UBound($sSplitClass) - 1 To 1 Step - 1
        Local $nCount = 0
        While 1
            $nCount += 1
            Local $aCPos = ControlGetPos($hWin, '', $sSplitClass[$iCount] & $nCount)
            If @error Then ExitLoop
            If $iXPos >= $aCPos[0] And $iXPos <= ($aCPos[0] + $aCPos[2]) _
                    And $iYPos >= $aCPos[1]  And $iYPos <= ($aCPos[1] + $aCPos[3]) Then
                If $sSplitClass[$iCount] <> '' And Not $iReturnType Then Return $sSplitClass[$iCount] & $nCount
                If $sSplitClass[$iCount] <> '' And $iReturnType = 2 Then
                    $hCtrlWnd = ControlGetHandle($hWin, '', $sSplitClass[$iCount] & $nCount)
                    ControlFocus($hWin, '', $hCtrlWnd)
                    $aReturn = DllCall('User32.dll', 'int', 'GetDlgCtrlID', 'hwnd', $hCtrlWnd)
                    If @error = 0 And $aReturn[0] <> '' Then _
                        Return 'ControlID: ' & $aReturn[0] & @CRLF & 'ClassNameNN: ' & $sSplitClass[$iCount] & $nCount
                    Return 'ClassNameNN: ' & $sSplitClass[$iCount] & $nCount
                ElseIf $sSplitClass[$iCount] <> '' And $iReturnType = 1 Then
                    $hCtrlWnd = ControlGetHandle($hWin, '', $sSplitClass[$iCount] & $nCount)
                    ControlFocus($hWin, '', $hCtrlWnd)
                    $aReturn = DllCall('User32.dll', 'int', 'GetDlgCtrlID', 'hwnd', $hCtrlWnd)
                    If @error = 0 And $aReturn[0] <> '' Then Return $aReturn[0]
                EndIf
                Return ''
            EndIf
        WEnd
    Next
    Return ''
EndFunc

Edit:

I thought I had made one, but it was LxP that made one that returns the Handle but the same concept.

It's funny to see the different approach we both took though.

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...ost&p=97861

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Thanks for fast response!

This is an - slightly - modified extract from the script:

$A = ControlGetText($WT, "", "WindowsForms10.STATIC.app.0.378734a32" )
$B = ControlGetText($WT, "", "WindowsForms10.STATIC.app.0.378734a31" )
$C = ControlGetText($WT, "", "WindowsForms10.STATIC.app.0.378734a30" )

Already overwritten the code from yesterday, but the change was in the last two digits.

E.g. WindowsForms10.STATIC.app.0.378734a29 changed to Win...8734a32

The ClassNameNN seemed to be ok - at least till today - while the ControlID was changing after each start of the app. No rule found so far.

Obviously I need to checkout your proposals searching ClassNameNN by position.

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Already overwritten the code from yesterday, but the change was in the last two digits.

E.g. WindowsForms10.STATIC.app.0.378734a29 changed to Win...8734a32

The ClassNameNN seemed to be ok - at least till today - while the ControlID was changing after each start of the app. No rule found so far.

Obviously I need to checkout your proposals searching ClassNameNN by position.

what's the application?

Cheers

Kurt

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It's an inhouse written application/GUI for an IC-evaluation-kit connected to the LPT-Port. Not available in the wild. :whistle:

O.K. and what's the development environment? Strange behaviour....

BTW: Why not ask the internal developers what's going on...

Cheers

Kurt

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O.K. and what's the development environment? Strange behaviour....

BTW: Why not ask the internal developers what's going on...

Cheers

Kurt

- App is written in M$ Visual Studio C. (Mentioned in the first post.)

- The developper is having no idea at all.

Always the same problem. They never think about testing and adding macro and logging feature to their apps. :)

Therefore I am trying to automate some stupid stuff like pressing Start, wait for a certain text, writing value in a list, pressing Stop and repeat and repeat ...

The designer was very surprised to get some 100 values the next day! He thought I will be busy the next days to get the data! :)

So far I haven't told too many people about this fantastic tool. :whistle:

But that's off topic, I think!

Either I will change the few values after they change manually or I will check out the "ControlID by Position"-solution.

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OK, I have experienced such behavior with ImgBurn (google it!). ControlIDs keep changing from run to run, but classnames seem not. I'm still not 100% sure about thewclassnames, so, I'll try pos x/y method.

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Did the control by position help you (I don't see why it wouldn't unless there are dummy controls that have focus in the same place).

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