ControlClick()

[Tomoya]

I know this command is supposed to be simple but I just don't understand how it works, or at least how it works correctly...

I used this

ControlClick("AutoIt Help", "&Display", "3006")

Just to try and test it on the autoit help window that was up on my screen and obviously I did something wrong because it just sits that and does nothing.

I want it to click a button in my GUI that has the following "Control" tab settings

Class: Button

Instance: 2

ClassnameNN: Button2

Name:

Advanced Mode: [CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]

ID: 4

Text: Vote For Us

Position: 8, 40

Size: 89, 25

ControlClikc Coords: 55, 13

Style: 0x50010000

ExStyle: 0x00000000

Handel: 0x00000000000A04DE

Now I may be wrong but I used.

ControlClick("AutoIt Script", "", "4")

And got nothing. Can some one give me a brief (or long, w.e you want lol) explanation on what I'm misunderstanding about this function?

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pls post the code of your GUI

[Tomoya]

;Function for creating the GUI
Func Main_Form()
    $Form1_1 = GUICreate("Auto v2.0", 341, 173, 1245, 3)
    $NextAccBtn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Next Account", 8, 8, 89, 25)
    $VoteForUsBtn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Vote For Us", 8, 40, 89, 25)
    $ClickBtn = GUICtrlCreateButton(" Click GX100", 8, 72, 89, 25)
    $LogOutBtn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Log Out", 8, 104, 89, 25)
    $RetryBtn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Retry", 135, 64, 97, 25)
    $ReIP = GUICtrlCreateButton("ReIP", 135, 90, 97, 25)
    $ReCordNextAcc = GUICtrlCreateButton("R", 96, 8, 17, 17)
    $ReCordGoButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Go", 113, 8, 20, 17)
    $ReCordVote = GUICtrlCreateButton("R", 96, 40, 17, 17)
    $ReCordG = GUICtrlCreateButton("G", 96, 72, 17, 17)
    $ReCordX = GUICtrlCreateButton("X", 113, 72, 17, 17)
    $ReCordLogOut = GUICtrlCreateButton("R", 96, 104, 17, 17)
    $CurrentAccLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Current Account:", 136, 8, 84, 17)
    $TotalLCashLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Total LCash:", 136, 24, 64, 17)
    $ElapsedTimeLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Elapsed Time:", 136, 40, 71, 17)
    $BlankCurrentAccLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 216, 8, 124, 17)
    $BlankTotalLCashLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 216, 24, 124, 17)
    $BlankElapsedTimeLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 216, 40, 124, 17)
    $WindowInfoLabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Auto v2.0", 0, 152, 340, 20, $SS_SUNKEN)

    GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
EndFunc

No idea how it would help but ok

[monoscout999]

check this that i wrote today.

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please the complete code including the controlclick and the #includes

[Tomoya]

check this that i wrote today.

Oh ok! I think I get it now!

I have to include [CLASS: ] or [iNSTANCE: ] when using it. Thanks! I thought that was just part of the example that was not needed!

I will go test it now.

[monoscout999]

Oh ok! I think I get it now!

I have to include [CLASS: ] or [iNSTANCE: ] when using it. Thanks! I thought that was just part of the example that was not needed!

I will go test it now.

One thing, read well the parameters of the function from the help file first, are well described there.

for example.

ControlClick("AutoIt Help", "&Display", "3006")
ControlClick ( "title", "text", controlID [, button [, clicks [, x [, y ]]]] )

You are missing parameters.

I use the class to identify the windows, because i have the Win7 in spanish languaje, this way i get sure that any person who use my script can run it.

Edited July 1, 2011 by monoscout999

[Tomoya]

Ya, I tried even copying your whole script from that other post did not work. Even using the test scripts

ControlClick("[CLASS:Notepad]", "", "MDIClient1")

With a open notepad does not seem to work.

[monoscout999]

Ya, I tried even copying your whole script from that other post did not work.

Did it open the calculator? did you see the tiptools? did you try open the calculator by yourself?

did you attach a console debug to the functions(from the beggining until find the error)?

[Tomoya]

I didn't use the whole script only the first few because the tooltips have syntax errors because it needs ToolTip("Text here").

Its ok I found another solution of just using mouseclick, thanks for the help though

[monoscout999]

anyway my script dont have errors.. :s

[Graywalker]

ControlClick("AutoIt Help", "&Display", "3006")

I see the problem... I just fixed mine. You are using the Au3Info.exe - "Autoit3 Window Info" tool. You are using the "controlID" and that is not what it is actually looking for - even though the syntax says :

ControlClick ( "title", "text", controlID [, button [, clicks [, x [, y ]]]] )

Instead of controlID, it really wants the ClassnameNN.

In my example, the controlID was 5009, but I had to change it to the following to get it to work :

ControlClick("Settings for Server","","Button5","primary")

[BrewManNH]

From the help file for ControlClick

A special description can be used as the controlID parameter used in most of the Control...() functions . This description can be used to identify a control by the following properties:

• ID - The internal control ID. The Control ID is the internal numeric identifier that windows gives to each control. It is generally the best method of identifying controls. In addition to the AutoIt Window Info Tool, other applications such as screenreaders for the blind and Microsoft tools/APIs may allow you to get this Control ID
• TEXT - The text on a control, for example "&Next" on a button
• CLASS - The internal control classname such as "Edit" or "Button"
• CLASSNN - The ClassnameNN value as used in previous versions of AutoIt, such as "Edit1"
• NAME - The internal .NET Framework WinForms name (if available)
• REGEXPCLASS - Control classname using a regular expression
• X \ Y \ W \ H - The position and size of a control.
• INSTANCE - The 1-based instance when all given properties match.

This tends to throw quite a few people, in that the ControlID the function is looking for can be any one of the above properties, so if you can't find one, you might be able to get away with using one of the others.