Find window by It’s Position?

[nusaki]

I have two windows open with same Class and Title. Is it possible to find window by its position if it’s not selected (activated)? I also herd that you can find window by its handle, but how can do that if handle always changes when I close and open that window?

Help me please!

Edited September 6, 2009 by nusaki

[PsaltyDS]

I have two windows open with same Class and Title. Is it possible to find window by its position if it’s not selected (activated)? I also herd that you can find window by its handle, but how can do that if handle always changes when I close and open that window?

Help me please!

You are right about the handles: they change every time and are not useful for initial identification of the window, but are the most reliable way to ID the window after you get them.

Look in the help file at "Window Titles and Text (Advanced)" in the section "Advanced Window Descriptions", where you find:

A special description can be used as the window title parameter. This description can be used to identify a window by the following properties:

TITLE - Window title

CLASS - The internal window classname

REGEXPTITLE - Window title using a regular expression (if the regular expression is wrong @error will be set to 2)

REGEXPCLASS - Window classname using a regular expression (if the regular expression is wrong @error will be set to 2)

LAST - Last window used in a previous AutoIt command

ACTIVE - Currently active window

X \ Y \ W \ H - The position and size of a window

INSTANCE - The 1-based instance when all given properties match

The help doesn't include an example using X\Y\W\H though, so here's one:

; Create GUI
GUICreate("GUI 1", 300, 300, 150, 175)
GUISetState()

; Get handle by X/Y pos
$hGUI = WinGetHandle("[X:150; Y:175]", "")

; Use handle to get title
$sTitle = WinGetTitle($hGUI)

; Display results
ConsoleWrite("$hGUI = " & $hGUI & ", $sTitle = " & $sTitle & @LF)

; Wait for close
Do
    Sleep(10)
Until GUIGetMsg() = -3

[nusaki]

Thank You for help But it doesn’t seem to work for me.

There is my code below

I need to find windows at coordinates 0,0 and 0,208 (so I can activate them when I need to) but program returns wrong handles

Global $Pause
#Include <Misc.au3>
HotKeySet("{F2}","close")
HotKeySet("{F1}","start")
While 1
    Sleep(1800000)
    start()
Wend
Func close()
Exit
EndFunc
Func start()
setup()
EndFunc
Func setup()
$h1 = WinGetHandle("[X:0; Y:0]", "")
$h2 = WinGetHandle("[X:0; Y:208]", "")
MsgBox(0,"",$h1)
MsgBox(0,"",$h2)
EndFunc

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EDIT nvm sorry

i changed $h1 = WinGetHandle("[X:0; Y:0]", "") to $h1 = WinGetHandle("[X:0; Y:1]", "")

and moved window to 0,1 and it works perfect! thanks!

Edited September 6, 2009 by nusaki

[torels]

make a winlist of all active windows

then make a search in the array for widows with the positions you need (and let's say a 5px margin of error, if the window's position resulted slightly moved for any reason) so you get something like

if $PosY-208<6 and $PosY-208>-6 then

;do whatver

endif

where $PosY is the position of the window you find by WinList

you will obviously have to go all through the WinList Array

[PsaltyDS]

EDIT nvm sorry

i changed $h1 = WinGetHandle("[X:0; Y:0]", "") to $h1 = WinGetHandle("[X:0; Y:1]", "")

and moved window to 0,1 and it works perfect! thanks!

The problem with 0,0 is that every full-screen window including the desktop is at that position. So if you just use "[X:0; Y:0]" then you get whichever one is at that position and nearest the top of the z-order. Add more parameters to make it more specific. For example, in my demo if you change this:

; Get handle by Class plus X/Y pos
$hGUI = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:AutoIt v3 GUI; X:0; Y:0]", "")

It will now only find an AuotIt GUIs at 0,0 even if it's not currently on top.