Get menu item text of menu item in AutoIt GUI

[Hypertrophy]

I know this is probably a really basic question but how to I get the text of the menu item I created in my AutoIt GUI and change it?

[PsaltyDS]

It's not quite so basic. GuiCtrlRead() and ControlGetText() won't do it. You can use the GuiMenu.au3 UDF functions for it, though:

#include <GuiMenu.au3>

; Note:  $hGUI is the handle to the GUI/Window of interest

$hMenu = _GUICtrlMenu_GetMenu($hGUI)
$iCnt = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemCount($hMenu)
$sMsg = "There are " & $iCnt & " items in the menu:" & @CRLF
For $n = 0 To $iCnt - 1
    $sMsg &= @TAB & $n & ": " & _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemText($hMenu, $n) & @CRLF
Next
MsgBox(64, "Test", $sMsg)

Edited December 12, 2009 by PsaltyDS

[Hypertrophy]

It's not quite so basic. GuiCtrlRead() and ControlGetText() won't do it. You can use the GuiMenu.au3 UDF functions for it, though:

#include <GuiMenu.au3>

; Note:  $hGUI is the handle to the GUI/Window of interest

$hMenu = _GUICtrlMenu_GetMenu($hGUI)
$iCnt = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemCount($hMenu)
$sMsg = "There are " & $iCnt & " items in the menu:" & @CRLF
For $n = 0 To $iCnt - 1
    $sMsg &= @TAB & $n & ": " & _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemText($hMenu, $n) & @CRLF
Next
MsgBox(64, "Test", $sMsg)

Maybe I was misunderstood. I have created a context menu with items and a specific item I need to get the text of.

[martin]

Maybe I was misunderstood. I have created a context menu with items and a specific item I need to get the text of.

What PsaltyDS showed is correct, except that you need to use the handle for your context menu like this

$iCnt = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemCount(GUICtrlGetHandle($menu[0][0]))
$sMsg = "There are " & $iCnt & " items in the menu:" & @CRLF
For $n = 0 To $iCnt - 1
    $sMsg &= @TAB & $n & ": " & _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemText(GUICtrlGetHandle($menu[0][0]), $n) & @CRLF
Next
MsgBox(64, "Test", $sMsg)

You can change the text for an item like this

GUICtrlSetData($menu[0][2],"some new choice")

Edited December 13, 2009 by martin

[PsaltyDS]

Maybe I was misunderstood. I have created a context menu with items and a specific item I need to get the text of.

Misunderstood? Where was a context menu mentioned?

What PsaltyDS showed is correct, except that you need to use the handle for your context menu like this

$iCnt = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemCount(GUICtrlGetHandle($menu[0][0]))
$sMsg = "There are " & $iCnt & " items in the menu:" & @CRLF
For $n = 0 To $iCnt - 1
    $sMsg &= @TAB & $n & ": " & _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemText(GUICtrlGetHandle($menu[0][0]), $n) & @CRLF
Next
MsgBox(64, "Test", $sMsg)

You can change the text for an item like this

GUICtrlSetData($menu[0][2],"some new choice")

Did you get some code in a PM or something? Where did we get that the control IDs were in 2D $menu array?