Selecting treeview in application

[PioRey]

Hi All,

I'm just new to AutoIt and looking for a code that will focus on the treeview of an application and then get the child node of it. Anyone have an idea? Thanks.

[PsaltyDS]

Look at _GUICtrlTreeView_GetFirstChild() and the various other _GuiCtrlTreeView* functions in the help file.

[PioRey]

Can you give a sample script? The treeview structure on that window is something like this:

Application Name

|

--Groups

|

---New Group Name 1

|

---New Group Name 2

|

---New Group Name 3

What I want to do is get the children of the parent node 'Groups'.

Thanks.

[PsaltyDS]

1. ControlGetHandle() to ID the treeview control

2. _GuiCtrlTreeView_FindItem() to ID the 'Groups' item

3. _GuiCtrlTreeView_GetFirstChild() to ID the first child item

4. Loop on _GuiCtrlTreeView_GetNextSibling() to ID successive child items

Working demo:

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#include <GuiConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiTreeView.au3>

Global $hGUI, $hTreeView, $hTemp, $idButton

$hGUI = GUICreate("TreeView Find Item", 400, 300)
$hTreeView = _GUICtrlTreeView_Create($hGUI, 10, 10, 380, 240)
$hTemp = _GUICtrlTreeView_Add($hTreeView, 0, "Application")
For $x = 0 To 3
    _GUICtrlTreeView_Add($hTreeView, $hTemp, StringFormat("[%02d] New Item", $x))
Next
$hTemp = _GUICtrlTreeView_AddChild($hTreeView, $hTemp, "Groups")
For $x = 4 To 7
    _GUICtrlTreeView_Add($hTreeView, $hTemp, StringFormat("[%02d] New Item", $x))
Next
For $x = 0 To 9
    _GUICtrlTreeView_AddChild($hTreeView, $hTemp, StringFormat("New Group Name [%02d]", $x))
Next
$idButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("TEST", 100, 260, 100, 30)
GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $idButton
            _GetGroupsChildren()
    EndSwitch
WEnd

; Find all treeview children of "Groups" node
; Note this function discovers its own IDs for the GUI, TreeView, and items
Func _GetGroupsChildren()
    Local $hWnd, $hTV, $hTMP, $sText
    $hWnd = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:AutoIt v3 GUI; TITLE:TreeView Find Item]", "")
    $hTV = ControlGetHandle($hWnd, "", "[CLASS:SysTreeView32; INSTANCE:1]")
    $hTMP = _GUICtrlTreeView_FindItem($hTV, "Groups")
    If $hTMP Then
        $hTMP = _GUICtrlTreeView_GetFirstChild($hTV, $hTMP)
        If $hTMP Then
            $sText = _GUICtrlTreeView_GetText($hTV, $hTMP) & " (hwnd = " & $hTMP & ")"
            While 1
                $hTMP = _GUICtrlTreeView_GetNextSibling($hTV, $hTMP)
                If $hTMP Then
                    $sText &= @CRLF & _GUICtrlTreeView_GetText($hTV, $hTMP) & " (hwnd = " & $hTMP & ")"
                Else
                    MsgBox(64, "Done", "'Groups' item has the following child items:" & @CRLF & $sText)
                    ExitLoop
                EndIf
            WEnd
        Else
            MsgBox(16, "Error", "'Groups' item has no child items")
        EndIf
    Else
        MsgBox(16, "Error", "'Groups' item not found")
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>_GetGroupsChildren

[PioRey]

Thanks for the code, but when I try to apply this, why the controlID of the application always change every time I open it? Is there anyway to know this without going to the Window Info and getting the controlID of that control in the application? Thanks a lot.

[PsaltyDS]

That's not uncommon for the control ID to change. Use something that doesn't change to get the handle.

Note the demo uses "[CLASS:SysTreeView32; INSTANCE:1]" to identify the control.

What are you using? What else have you tried?

[PioRey]

I finally solve that problem, here's the code:

$CntrlID = ControlGetHandle($appName, "", "[CLASS:WindowsForms10.SysTreeView32.app.0.378734a; INSTANCE:1]")

now my problem is (since I'm new in AutoIt), how will I send mouse clicks to the application that I want to automate?

It has a treeview node of 'Groups', right click on that and select 'Create New Group', a dialog box will open with two textboxes, a Group Name and a Description, I usually put only the Group Name in the textbox and then click the 'OK' button.

Can you help me on this? Really appreciate your help. Thanks a lot.

[PsaltyDS]

Back to the help file:

1. _GUICtrlTreeView_ClickItem() to click on the treeview item.

2. Handle the context menu.

3. Handle the popup dialog.

Step (2) might be problematic depending on exactly what kind of context menu comes up, whether it has hot keys available (like "!c" for "&Create"), etc.

[PioRey]

Thanks.. got it now..

After creating the script, running it will show the mouse clicks on the screen, want I want to do is hide it. How can I do it in the script? Thanks.