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I am trying to do something really simple and I cannot find anything that can handle the problem - yes I have been searching for hours in the forum. I just want to be able to trap the mousedown event on a button and return the button ID. In AHK that can be done with MouseGetPos; does AutoIt have anything that will do the job? thanks...

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Is this an AU3 created GUI or a windows GUI?

GUIGetCursorInfo for an AU3 window

For a windows GUI use this function (it returns a handle)

Func _ControlGetHovered()
    Local $aRet = DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "WindowFromPoint", "long", MouseGetPos(0), "long", MouseGetPos(1))
    If Not IsArray($aRet) Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
    Return HWnd($aRet[0])
EndFunc
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Is this an AU3 created GUI or a windows GUI?

GUIGetCursorInfo for an AU3 window

For a windows GUI use this function (it returns a handle)

Func _ControlGetHovered()
    Local $aRet = DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "WindowFromPoint", "long", MouseGetPos(0), "long", MouseGetPos(1))
    If Not IsArray($aRet) Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
    Return HWnd($aRet[0])
EndFunc

I am working with AU3 script only. I don't mind integrating something, but I am talking about over 60 controls.

EDIT: AU3 seems to only recognize MouseUp and not MouseDown and this is the hangup.

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Maybe a better explanation of what it is you're trying to accomplish would help? If you want to know which button on your GUI has been pressed, look at either GUIGetMsg (message loop mode) or GUICtrlSetOnEvent (control event mode) as a start. Otherwise, I'm not exactly sure what it is you're looking to get.

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Maybe a better explanation of what it is you're trying to accomplish would help? If you want to know which button on your GUI has been pressed, look at either GUIGetMsg (message loop mode) or GUICtrlSetOnEvent (control event mode) as a start. Otherwise, I'm not exactly sure what it is you're looking to get.

I have a 2 state button and 2 images. I want to display a normal state image and a pressed state image.

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What about GUIGetCursorInfo?

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What about GUIGetCursorInfo?

I think $array[4] may be the answer, I don't know why I didn't see that when I was looking at the function, going for an eye check up. thanks...

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I have a 2 state button and 2 images. I want to display a normal state image and a pressed state image.

Ok, I get it now. You might want to check out which does what you're looking for. You can either use his UDF or look at the code to see how it's done.

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Here is what I ended up with. The one thing that is required in this situation is that you have to know the ControlID.

#include <Misc.au3>
    $dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")
    Global $ctrl = GUIGetCursorInfo()
    If $ctrl[4] = 4 And _IsPressed(01, $dll) Then
        GUICtrlSetImage($butMoveFirst, @ScriptDir & '\Images\MoveFirstDn.bmp')
    Else
        GUICtrlSetImage($butMoveFirst, @ScriptDir & '\Images\MoveFirstUp.bmp')
    EndIf

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Why would the following "Tooltip" cause the GUI to close if it loses focus?

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIScrollBars.au3>
#include <ScrollBarConstants.au3>
#include <Misc.au3>
Global $hGuiWin
Global $pressed, $ctrl, $dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")
Main()

Func Main()

     $hGuiWin = GUICreate ("Contacts DB", 900, 750)
    GUISetBkColor (0x000000, $hGuiWin )

    GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
    While 1
        If _IsPressed(01, $dll) And $pressed = 0 Then
            $pressed = 1
        ElseIf Not _IsPressed(01, $dll) Then
            $ctrl = GUIGetCursorInfo()
            $pressed = 0
        EndIf
        ToolTip($ctrl[4]) ; CAUSES WINDOW TO CLOSE WHEN LOSING FOCUS.
;       ToolTip("tooltip") ; DOES NOT CAUSE CRASH.
        Switch GUIGetMsg(0)
            Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
                Exit
        EndSwitch
    WEnd
EndFunc ; Main()

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Found a work around in that if I use the window handle like this GUIGetCursorInfo($hGuiWin) it works. Don't know, but it looks like a bug in AU3.

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It's probably crashing because the array $ctrl is no longer an array because the GUIGetCursorInfo isn't over an AutoIT GUI.

From the help file

The mouse cursor position is successful only on an window created by a GUICreate. When no winhandle it will be successful if the GUI Windows is active.

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It's probably crashing because the array $ctrl is no longer an array because the GUIGetCursorInfo isn't over an AutoIT GUI.

From the help file

Ok, help me out here. If the window isn't active, then the tooltip is not available and not active. Why would the GUI close? I gave this a try and it still crashes:
If WinActive("Contacts DB") Then
    ToolTip($ctrl[4] & " " )
Else
    ToolTip("")
EndIf

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What's the error message you're receiving when it crashes?

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What's the error message you're receiving when it crashes?

This:
ToolTip($ctrl[4] & " " )
ToolTip($ctrl^ ERROR

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Try this:

If IsArray($ctrl) Then
    ToolTip($ctrl[4]) ; CAUSES WINDOW TO CLOSE WHEN LOSING FOCUS.
Endif

Untested

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What is the EXACT error message that you get when it crashes, what you posted previously was only a tiny part of it. Without the full error message it's going to be very hard to trouble shoot what's happening. Also, make sure you haven't changed the code around the error message area too much from what's posted, if you have changed it, please repost the script with the changes so that we're all working from the same base. Thanks.

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Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays.  -  ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script.  -  Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label.  -  _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file  -  SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor  -  GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI.  -   Latin Square password generator

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What is the EXACT error message that you get when it crashes, what you posted previously was only a tiny part of it. Without the full error message it's going to be very hard to trouble shoot what's happening. Also, make sure you haven't changed the code around the error message area too much from what's posted, if you have changed it, please repost the script with the changes so that we're all working from the same base. Thanks.

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