seeing if a checkbox is marked or not

[industry7]

I need to see if a checkbox is marked or not. I can't seem to find the function to do this. The closest I found were GUICtrlGetState and GUICtrlRead, but the documentation says they can only accept a controlID that was returned by a GUICtrlCreate... function ie. one that I made myself. I need to look at a markbox in the program that I'm trying to automate. I tried used those functions anyway, but couldn't get them to work. So how is this supposed to be done? I feel really dumb that I can't figure out such a basic task.

[mikjay]

If the checkbox already exists, you won't be able to get the state using the ctrlread function. What about pixelsearch to find the color black in the box?

This is kind of a bad reply, as I answered before I realized it wasn't the GUI you created.

Edited November 11, 2009 by mikjay

[PsaltyDS]

I need to see if a checkbox is marked or not. I can't seem to find the function to do this. The closest I found were GUICtrlGetState and GUICtrlRead, but the documentation says they can only accept a controlID that was returned by a GUICtrlCreate... function ie. one that I made myself. I need to look at a markbox in the program that I'm trying to automate. I tried used those functions anyway, but couldn't get them to work. So how is this supposed to be done? I feel really dumb that I can't figure out such a basic task.

Get the control ID of the checkbox using the AutoIt Window Info tool (AU3Info.exe). Then you can use:

$IsChecked = ControlCommand("Window Title", "", $idChkBox, "IsChecked") ; Where $idChkBox is the control ID

Edited November 11, 2009 by PsaltyDS

[industry7]

Get the control ID of the checkbox using the AutoIt Window Info tool (AU3Info.exe). Then you can use:

$IsChecked = ControlCommand("Window Title", "", $idChkBox, "IsChecked") ; Where $idChkBox is the control ID

That worked. Thanks a whole bunch!