How to paste a multiple-line window-text?

[Dewey6]

Hi everyone,

Big beginner here. Very big. PArdon the simplicity of my question.

How do you paste a window-text (as in WinWaitActive("Notepad", "window text")

if the window text is printed on several lines?

For instance, if I get a window text saying:

"Do you want to save your file

Or go bake french fries instead"

Autoit v3 Window info tool will report the following text:

"Do you want to save your file (strange sign resembling a mignaturized Dolby logo)Or go bake french fries instead"

The copy-pasteing of the latter gives the following result:

WinWaitActive("Notepad", "Do you want to save your file

Or go bake french fries instead"

wich is not usable in the script, of course.

So what shall I do with my strange sign? I guess it's simply a sign that gives the order to change line, but how do I paste it?

I try to just ommit the sign, but it gives nothing better.

Thanks for your answers.

Dewey

[jlarson]

Would this work?

WinWaitActive("Notepad")
Send("Do you want to save your file {ENTER} Or go back french fries instead.")

[Melba23]

Dewey6,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

Your "minaturized Dolby logo" is a carriage return and line feed - which in AutoIt is replaced by the @CRLF macro. In order to combine the 2 lines of text you need to use the concatenation operator & like this:

$sText = "Do you want to save your file" & @CRLF & "Or go bake french fries instead"
WinWaitActive("Notepad", $sText")

All clear?

M23

[Dewey6]

att Jlarson: thx, but it doesn't seem to do the trick

att Melba23: What you explianed is very clear.

But it's not working. I know theat the window text must be very carefully pasted, but it doesnot work.

ANyway, I think I will read more of the "learning to script with autoIt" pdf.

There are too many questions that remain unanswered for me to begin and ask here each time something is unexplained.

Want an example? What is a scope? I know the word, I think I know what it means even thought I'm french, but Dim/Global/and Local still means nothing to me.

I guess it will come.

I might look for a French written tutorial too )

Thanks for your answer, anyway, and for the welcome.

[Varian]

I think the function WinGetText will help you. If you want to read the text from a window

$wText = WinGetText("Notepad")

The variable $wText will then contain all of the text that AutoIT can read from the window

If you are trying to identify a window with WinWait or WinExists, you do not have to pass all of the text (with line breaks) to the function...you only need to pass enough text to differentiate the window. Par example, if there is only one Notepad window open, you do not have to specify any text at all to identify it

WinWait("Notepad", "")
;or
Winatwait("[CLASS:Notepad]", "")

If there are multiple Notepad windows open, you just need to pass enough text to specify the on that you want

WinWait("Notepad", "unique text for the window")

Hope this helps

[Melba23]

Dewey6

What is a scope? I know the word, I think I know what it means even thought I'm french, but Dim/Global/and Local still means nothing to me.

Look at the Variables - using Global, Local and ByRef tutorial in the Wiki and everything should become much clearer.

M23

[Dewey6]

Dewey6

Look at the Variables - using Global, Local and ByRef tutorial in the Wiki and everything should become much clearer.

M23

Thanks for both your answers.

Varian's answer is interesting because it made me discover how many way there was to identify a window.

And btw: you are right: I should stick to identifying the window by a portion of the beginning of it's name, like mode 1 allows.

In time, I will find a use for the more elaborate or complete identification.

Melba23's answer made me realize that I had tooooooo many documentation to read.

Furthermore, I found a french translation of the help file )

Now that's study time.

Huey