Hitting Controls Buried In other Controls

[SpiritualMadMan]

First, I apologise for being such a newbie to using AutoIt and drilling down through the Windows GUI structures.

Also, the information is probably right there in front of me... I just don't know what I am looking.

I was using Phantom Test Driver. But, have run into one bug after another and that has run me past the budgetted time allotted so I am hurting for time.

OK... The ATE I am trying to validate the GUI's on has many controls several controls deep. That is Controls, on top of controls that are on top of controls on top of the windwow.

I need to learn how to identify a control at the bottom of the list.

Many of these Controls do not have any unique Control ID or Name. leaving only multiple incidence of the Class to choose from based on its relative position.

So, I suspect I am going to need to be able to enumerate controls on a window or control and then select the correct windows handle?

Something, I've heard about... But, have never done...

Any, advice (other than quitting) would be greatlt appreciated.

Thanks!

[PsaltyDS]

See WinGetClassList() in the help file. There is also a WinAPIEx function _WinAPI_EnumChildWindows(), which gives you the handles also.

#include <WinAPIEX.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

$sList = WinGetClassList("")
ConsoleWrite($sList & @LF & @LF)


$hWin = WinGetHandle("")
$aList = _WinAPI_EnumChildWindows($hWin, False)
_ArrayDisplay($aList)

[SpiritualMadMan]

See WinGetClassList() in the help file. There is also a WinAPIEx function _WinAPI_EnumChildWindows(), which gives you the handles also.

#include <WinAPIEX.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

$sList = WinGetClassList("")
ConsoleWrite($sList & @LF & @LF)

$hWin = WinGetHandle("")
$aList = _WinAPI_EnumChildWindows($hWin, False)
_ArrayDisplay($aList)

Thanks, I did a search of my AutoIt folders and can not find WinAPIEX.au3 can you tell me were it should be?

Thanks!

[PsaltyDS]

It's in Example Scripts:

[SpiritualMadMan]

It's in Example Scripts:

Thanks!

I really appreciate your assistance,

It turns out that I was making things way too hard.