ControlSend

[automation]

Hi I am new to Autoit

I am using Autoit in conjuction with Watir for desktop application.

Here is my code, I have to construct the URL depending on different parameters and then pass it to ControlSend so I can automate this process

require "watir"

require "dbi"

require "net/http"

require 'watir/testcase'

require "win32/process" # opening and closind applications

require "win32ole"

autoit=WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control")

# module to launch play url using winamp, needs to pass play url

module LaunchPlayUrl

def LaunchPlayUrl.launchPlayUrl(playUrl)

# Launch Winamp application

puts playUrl

autoit=WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control")

autoit.Run('C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe') # another post indicated double quotes do not work as in actual autoit script use single instead works.

#Activate Winamp window

autoit.WinWaitActive("Winamp 5.56")

autoit.Send("^l")

autoit.WinWaitActive("Open URL")

autoit.ControlSend("Open URL", "", "Edit1", $playUrl)

autoit.sleep(5000)

autoit.ControlClick("Open URL", "&Open", "Button1")

end

end

When I use this code value of $playUrl is not getting in the ControlSend and it is typing blank in the Edit field.

Please Help!

[zfisherdrums]

Hey automation,

I don't work that much in Ruby, so I apologize if this doesn't help you out. By looking at the code, '$playUrl' refers to a global variable, while the defined function receives a parameter entitled 'playUrl'. If the global variable isn't defined, that may explain why it is entering a blank value.

Zach...

[automation]

Hey automation,

I don't work that much in Ruby, so I apologize if this doesn't help you out. By looking at the code, '$playUrl' refers to a global variable, while the defined function receives a parameter entitled 'playUrl'. If the global variable isn't defined, that may explain why it is entering a blank value.

Zach...

Thanks for replying, I am initializing this variable while calling this module method, and I tried printing using puts too which is a valid string that I am passing when calling the method. but when I try to use that value in ControlSend it is null, I even tried passing local variable but did not work.

[zfisherdrums]

Try removing the '$' in front of '$playUrl'.

Current:

autoit.ControlSend("Open URL", "", "Edit1", $playUrl)

Updated:

autoit.ControlSend("Open URL", "", "Edit1", playUrl)

[automation]

Try removing the '$' in front of '$playUrl'.

Current:

autoit.ControlSend("Open URL", "", "Edit1", $playUrl)

Updated:

autoit.ControlSend("Open URL", "", "Edit1", playUrl)

I tried that too but did not work. I tried assigning global variable value to local variable and using local variable instead of global, but did not work.