autoit with spotfire

[automateseeker]

Is it possible to interact with spotfire using autoit? If it is what are steps would I need to do? Thx

[Mikeman27294]

http://spotfire.tibco.com/

That spotfire?

And yes, it is possible, one way or another. What do you want to do?

[automateseeker]

I am trying to see if I can use autoit script to launch spotfire and do some simple task like open a text file and plot it. I was able to launch it but after that look like I cannot control spotfire anymore

[Mikeman27294]

Launching it is simple.

Run("Path & executable")

then opening the text file, do you mean in notepad or in spotfire?

If you want to open it in notepad, use this:

ShellExecute("Path & Filename")

Also, as for trying to control the program, what do you want to do? Click buttons, input text?

Run the Au3Info tool from scite (Tools>AU3Info) or CTRL+F6 or run it from the autoit directory.

You can use this to get information about the controls such as the buttons, and then you can

send a click to the button.

[automateseeker]

Thanks Mikeman, sorry for not being very clear. I meant open .csv file in spotfire using Autoit control commands.

Below is my simple code but I can only get spotfire to launch and could not get it to control the "Work Offline" botton on the spotfire login menu.

my $Au3 = Win32::OLE->new("AutoItX3.Control");

sub mP_SPOTFIRE_OPEN($)

{ my $string1 = shift;

# my $spotfire_filename = 'C:Program FilesSpotfireDXP2.0Spotfire.Dxp.exe';

my $spotfire_filename = $string1;

my $spotfire_app = mP_SYS_WIN2UNIX($spotfire_filename);

$Au3->run("$spotfire_app"); #Need to provide full path including dxp filename

$Au3->WinWaitActive("TIBCO Spotfire Login");

$Au3->Opt("WinWaitDelay", 250); # wait 250ms after spotfire login activated

$Au3->ControlClick("TIBCO Spotfire Login", "Work &Offline", "[iNSTANCE:3; NAME:workOfflineButton]");

$Au3->WinWaitActive("TIBCO Spotfire");

}

mP_SPOTFIRE_OPEN('C:Program FilesSpotfireDXP2.0Spotfire.Dxp.exe');

[automateseeker]

I got it working OK now, thank you for pointing me to the Auto3Info tool. It's very useful. Very much appreciated.