Reading a label

[nasim007]

Hello Everyone,

I have downloaded and read the PDF document for AutoIT beginners "Learning to Script with AutoIT V3". I want to express my sincerest gratitude for that well structured peice of information. It has set good ground work for me as a newbie. Here is a question:

I want to make a message box pop up when a specific label changes within another window. I used the Window info utility and have obtained all the necessary information. But I do not know how to use it in the script.

Here is some of the Window information:

Class: WindowsForms10.STATIC.app.0.33c0d9d5

Instance: 5

ID: 1903750

Text: Click on Burn to start burning.

The text mentioned above will change to "Burning started..." when the user starts to burn. This is when I want a message box to pop-up within my script. Any ideas?

[martin]

Hello Everyone,

I have downloaded and read the PDF document for AutoIT beginners "Learning to Script with AutoIT V3". I want to express my sincerest gratitude for that well structured peice of information. It has set good ground work for me as a newbie. Here is a question:

I want to make a message box pop up when a specific label changes within another window. I used the Window info utility and have obtained all the necessary information. But I do not know how to use it in the script.

Here is some of the Window information:

Class: WindowsForms10.STATIC.app.0.33c0d9d5

Instance: 5

ID: 1903750

Text: Click on Burn to start burning.

The text mentioned above will change to "Burning started..." when the user starts to burn. This is when I want a message box to pop-up within my script. Any ideas?

I would try

ControlGetText

which uses the window title, text (just use "" for the text), and the control ID.

The problem might be that the control ID is not always the same.

EDIT: Oh, first post- Welcome to the AUtoIt forums nasim007

Edited January 18, 2010 by martin

[Bowmore]

As this is a .Net control you will probably find that ClassNN, Instance and ID are different every time the application runs. One way to get around this is to grab the handle of the control using the initial Text as the identifier. and then use the handle to check if the text has changed. 

#Include <WinAPI.au3>

; Put this near the start of your script when the control is first visible
$hwnd = ControlGetHandle("WidowTile","","[TEXT:Click on Burn to start burning.]")



; Put this were you need to check if the text has changed
If _WinAPI_GetWindowText($hWnd) = "Burning started..." Then
    MsgBox(0,"Message", "Burning started...")
EndIf

[nasim007]

As this is a .Net control you will probably find that ClassNN, Instance and ID are different every time the application runs. One way to get around this is to grab the handle of the control using the initial Text as the identifier. and then use the handle to check if the text has changed. 

#Include <WinAPI.au3>

; Put this near the start of your script when the control is first visible
$hwnd = ControlGetHandle("WidowTile","","[TEXT:Click on Burn to start burning.]")



; Put this were you need to check if the text has changed
If _WinAPI_GetWindowText($hWnd) = "Burning started..." Then
    MsgBox(0,"Message", "Burning started...")
EndIf

Thanks a lot guys. However, this now raises another question. Down the road I know I will have to deal with the ControlID. I cannot seem to find a command that retrieves the control's ID. As per Bowmore's coding suggestion, that works because we can deal with "TEXT: Insert text here" as an identifier to retrieve the handle. But what if the control does not contain text? I will keep tinkering but the deadline is fast approaching. Any help is strongly appreciated. Edited January 19, 2010 by nasim007