Simultaneously clicking a button on multiple applications?

[phatzilla]

Hey everyone, run into a bit of a jam here.

Let's say i have 10 identical applications open, and i need to simultaneously hit a button (Lets say "Go") on all of them, at the same time.

Is there any reliable way to do this that wont cause massive error's or anything like that?

[pieeater]

ControlClick might work.

[JohnOne]

No, autoit3 works procedural, it will click one button after the other, and perhaps very quicky, but only one at a time.

[phatzilla]

ControlClick might work.

Yes, it "worked" but only clicked on one of the applications (Even though all the controls are identical)

John,

That's fine too, as long as its done in very rapid succession, doesn't have to be *right* at the same time, split-seconds apart works for me too.

I have four of the applications open,

I run this code

ControlClick("[CLASS:WindowsForms10.window.8.app.0.378734a]", "", "WindowsForms10.BUTTON.app.0.378734a6","left",1)

But it only clicks on the last active application.

Edited April 17, 2011 by phatzilla

[SmOke_N]

Not sure where you logic is calling controlclick one time and expect it to take action on everything.

Anyway, you'll need to get the handle of each individual application window ( hope that class is unique to just that apps window ).

Something like ( pseudo code ):

Global $ga_wlist = WinList("[CLASS:WindowsForms10.window.8.app.0.378734a]")
If Not IsArray($ga_wlist) Then Exit 1

For $i = 1 To $ga_wlist[0][0]
    ControlClick($ga_wlist[$i][1], "", "WindowsForms10.BUTTON.app.0.378734a6","left")
Next

[phatzilla]

Thanks smoke, that seemed to have worked.

Couple questions / concerns though

- It seems as if they window has to be visible in order for the click to work? Weird.

- Sometimes the clicks dont seem to go through, even though all the windows are stored correctly in the array, no idea why this happens....

[wakillon]

Did you use WinActivate function ?