WinGetHandle - can't find the right window

[mikejson]

HI folks,

New to the forums, and AutoIt scripting...

I have looked at the Wiki documentation and thought I knew what I was doing, but I think I need a push in the right direction.

I'm attempting to make a script that when a button I define is pressed will minimize and hide a specific window, and when I hit another button it'll restore and show that window again.

I believe my script is failing when attempting to get the window handle. I've tried by WinGetHandle and using the name, but I think that is the part that is failing.

So a few questions that I have:

- is there a way to "test" the WinGetHandle? Does it throw an error that you can catch? This may give me more troubleshooting avenues...

- I've been trying to grab the handle by name but if there is a way to grab the handle of the last window in focus before I hit the key I assign to start the script, that would work for what I'm trying to do. is there something I can use to get the last window in focus?

- Is there a different way to get the handle of a window depending on the program itself(besides just the name)? This may give me more information that I can go google.

Any answers to those 3 questions may give me some more leads to dig to the answer... although, if someone wants to attempt to provide the complete answer, that is also appreciated!

Thanks!

[JLogan3o13]

Hi, Mikejson. Welcome to the forums. To answer your first question, you can check what the handle will be by assigning it to a variable and then piping it to the output of your choice. Below is a very simple example.

$var = WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad")
MsgBox(0, "", $var)

You could then double check by trying to send text to the window...

ControlSend($var, "", "Edit1", "1234")

Edited December 21, 2011 by JLogan3o13

[Skitty]

use a script like one to see if you have the right name first?

[Melba23]

mikejson,

You can get the handle of the currently active window like this:

ConsoleWrite(WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]") & @CRLF)

ConsoleWrite(WinGetHandle("[CLASS:SciTEWindow]") & @CRLF)

Run it from within SciTE and you will see you get the same values returned.

M23

[mikejson]

HI everyone,

So I now have my script getting the active window(as a note, you can just use WinGetHandle(""), but I did try the [ACTIVE] and it worked as well).

I still have an issue, and I think it may be related to the limitations of AutoIt... not sure.

I'm trying to build this script so that I can minimize and hide a game while I'm at work haha.... but it isn't picking up the handle of my game. The game is in window mode, so I would think it'd be able to grab it like any other window...

Here is the code I have for testing

Global $Show = 0
   Global $handle = WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]")
   Global $name = WinGetTitle("[ACTIVE]")
   MsgBox(0,"Handle",$handle)
   MsgBox(0,"Name",$name)

On any other window, my message boxes show up with the relevant information. When I have my game as the active window and hit the button that runs the above code, it just doesn't do anything.

Any thoughts?

[mikejson]

So I thought of another test to do.

I put a MsgBox just above the WinGetHandle line... just to see if the script was even getting the key press I was doing.

It wasn't...

Something is blocking the keypress from getting to AutoIt to even start the script.

I guess I could take the keypress out of the equation somehow... but I'm wondering if anyone has run into this and figured out how to fix the issue...

Thanks!

[Melba23]

mikejson,

I'm trying to build this script so that I can minimize and hide a game

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M23