notepad.exe tutorial

[DippyGirl]

Hi,

Just started learning AutoIt - discovered (and solved) the same issue as most noobs with the Autoit notepad tutorial - i.e. not recognising

the 'do you want to save changes .... ' text - ok

so followed the advice to experiment by replacing the Send() func with ControlClick but stuck again ( its like wading through treacle, this!! )

Here's my code - can anyone tell me why its not closing the dialog box as it does when i use: Send("!n") -

Run("notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")
Send("This is some text.")
WinClose("Untitled - Notepad")
WinWaitActive("Notepad")
;Send("!n")
ControlClick("Notepad", "", "[CLASS:Button; TEXT:Do&n't Save; INSTANCE:2]")

thanks

Edited July 27, 2011 by DippyGirl

[bogQ]

nwm dumb comment

use CLASS and INSTANCE and itl work

Run("notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")
Send("This is some text.")
WinClose("Untitled - Notepad")
WinWaitActive("[CLASS:#32770]")
;Send("!n")
ControlClick("[CLASS:#32770]", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]")

Edited July 27, 2011 by bogQ

[newbill]

I am just starting with autoit and followed the same tutorial with the same problem.

I guessed that the problem was that

WinWaitActive("Notepad", "Do you want to save")

was not recognizing the window so I identified the class of the window, using

Start Menu \ AutoIt v3 \ AutoIt Window Info as [Class:#32770] and modified the

line to:-

WinWaitActive("[Class:#32770]")

The working script is

Run("notepad.exe")

WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")

Send("This is some text.")

WinClose("Untitled - Notepad")

WinWaitActive("[Class:#32770]")

Send("!n")

Hope this helps

newbill

[sleepydvdr]

One question: wouldn't the class be different for different versions of the OS?

[AdmiralAlkex]

@newbill

Class 32770 is a standard class and will NOT work. Take Paint as an example, it's the same quit dialog, only the title seems to be different. What happened here is very simple, the tutorial is written for WinXP (probably) and the text changed in WinVista. Just use AutoIt Window Info to get the actual text on your OS.