How to Traverse a menu of third party application

[Protocoder]

Hi Experts,

I have to automate a third party application i need to do the following, i need your help with commands.

1. I need to go to particular menu item of the application located in Horizontal top panel.

2. Once i do step 1, i need to traverse down to desired location based on the user input. None of the menu items have short cut keys.

Thanks in Advance

Thanks and Best Regards

Protocoder

[shreeks]

Could you please share the snapshot of this application?

For query 1,

Were you able to find "Control ID" of the menu item using AutoIt Window Info tool?

[fett8802]

Hi Experts,

I have to automate a third party application i need to do the following, i need your help with commands.

1. I need to go to particular menu item of the application located in Horizontal top panel.

2. Once i do step 1, i need to traverse down to desired location based on the user input. None of the menu items have short cut keys.

Thanks in Advance

Thanks and Best Regards

Protocoder

In the UDF I wrote, is a function called "_ClickMenu". I wrote it due to the need to do exactly as you are describing. It can click across most horizontal menus (it was written for XP size menus) and includes variances for "separator" lines and can even do sub-menus and sub-sub-menus. You can download the UDF by clicking the link in my signature. If it works for you, I'd really appreciate a comment in the UDF thread! Hopefully it will do what you need. If you have any questions about the function, let me know. There are several other, very useful functions in the UDF.

-Fett

P.S. It can be found here:

Edited May 16, 2011 by fett8802

[Protocoder]

Thank you Shreeks and fett8802.

I have enclosed the snapshot. This application main window is on the left, CNTL+F8 Gets the "Query Details" window.

I need to click "Choose Item Type" button, and traverse down the list to choose the input the user gives at the command line (example Feature, DERIVED REQMT, etc).

Once query type above selected, the second parameter input as provided by the user is the fed as input in the "Identity" item. then press enter.

Example:

XXYY.exe Feature, FN1231232

So it runs the executable taking first input Feature as "query type" and feeds in "Identity" FN1231232...

Hi fett8802,

Do you think if i take "_ClickMenu" function, will that help me in this. I will try later today.

Any help in above is really appreciated.

PS: I have enclosed the Windows Info of the menu item.

Thanks and Regards

-Protocoder.

Edited May 16, 2011 by Protocoder

[Protocoder]

Have i missed some thing very obvious? Please can some one help me. I could not get this right. Thank you

[fett8802]

Have i missed some thing very obvious? Please can some one help me. I could not get this right. Thank you

Did you try the _ClickMenu function? Here's an example:

In FireFox4, the code to click View -> Zoom -> Reset is this:

_ClickMenu("Window Title",2,3,1,3,1)

That clicks main item 2 (File|Edit|View -- File is 0, Edit is 1, View is 2) then clicks sub-menu item 3 (Toolbar, Sidebar, Spacer, Zoom -- Toolbar is 1, Sidebar is 2, spacer does not count, Zoom is 3) and takes 1 spacer into account, then clicks the sub-sub item 3 (Zoom In, Zoom Out, spacer, Reset -- same style) and accounts for 1 spacer.

Give this function a try!

-Fett

[Zedna]

If it's standard main menu then you can use WinMenuSelectItem()

[junkew]

with the information in this thread

you can also find out a lot if AutoIT default functions are not enough

[Protocoder]

Thank you All.

Fret: I have tried your _ClickMenu() for a notepad application. It is brilliant.. However Please have a look at the screen shot,

The child window "Query Details" has a "Choose Item Type" button to open up a menu which has no short cut keys except click on the list of options.

Unfortunately _clickMenu isn't working.

Zedna: I tried WinMenuSelectItem too, but as you have pointed out, this is not the main menu window.

junkew: I been to the links and notice you got some incredible problem solved but i need help in using that feature in my program.

PS: I would like to take the user input and go down that many options to select a menu. Any help is appreciated.