SendMessage()

[NeedSomeHelp1]

Hi - I'm am having some trouble working around an authentication popup. I am opening a website and a popup comes up where the username and password are saved, and all I need to do is hit Enter or the OK button. I can easily do this with a send() when the computer is unlocked, but I need for this script to run while the computer is locked. I have done some searching and seen that the windows sendmessage() may work when the computer is locked. Can anyone show me how to do this or have any other ideas? The code below is my script except I changed the website to something more general and the ControlClick line is the last thing I have tried to do to get past this popup. Thanks!

#include <IE.au3>

BlockInput(1)

$oIE = _IECreate ("www.yahoo.com",0,1,0,1 )

Sleep(500)

ControlClick("Microsoft Internet Explorer",'', "OK")

_IELoadWait ($oIE)

$IE.execWB(6,2)

_IEQUIT($oIE)

BlockInput(0)

[Bert]

Look at IEAction to perform the click.

[NeedSomeHelp1]

If I do

_IEACTION($oIE, "click")

nothing happens. I think it may be because I want to click on the popup window, not the original IE object

[PsaltyDS]

ControlClick() is correct, but "OK" is not a valid control ID. If OK is the default button then just specifying the window ID and leaving the control ID blank should work: ControlClick("YourTitleHere", "", "")

Examine the popup with AU3Info for better info on the window and the control to make it more specific/reliable.

[Bert]

I believe he is trying to click on a control in a web page. If that is the case then controlclick won't work.

[PsaltyDS]

OP says it's a popup from the web page, which is often an ordinary Windows dialog box with regular Windows API controls.

It could also be an IE dialog box, which requires _IEAttach() with "DialogBox" to get the document object for use with other _IE* functions.

AU3Info would verify one way or the other.

[NeedSomeHelp1]

I got ControlClick("", "", "OK") to work just fine when the computer is unlocked. This does not work when it is locked.

[PsaltyDS]

That's because a window title of "" is equivalent to "[ACTIVE]", and while the console is locked no window can be active. The invalid control ID was ignored.

Fill in the window specification with a proper value to ID the window and either leave the control ID empty or get a valid one.

I still don't hear you saying you check it out with AU3Info.exe...

Edited June 15, 2010 by PsaltyDS

[NeedSomeHelp1]

I didn't know about the AutoIt window info, and thats why I wasn't using it. But after finding the name of the popup window, it worked while the computer is locked. Thanks for all the help.