Fetch ListControl Column Name and control type

[pammi]

Hi Everyone,

Can I know how to fetch the column name and the control type of the listcontrol box.

The one which i am automating has the following columns

1)Message name(of checkbox type)

2)Data bytes

I want to fetch the column names(i.e. message name and Data bytes) and the control type of the message name(i.e. checkbox)

please share your ideas on this.

Thanks in advance

[pammi]

I used GUICtrlRead ( controlID [, advanced] ) function, but that din't help.its returning 0 which is failure.

Below is the summary info :

>>>> Window <<<<

Title: ABC

Class: Afx:400000:8:10011:0:70733

Position: -4, -4

Size: 1032, 746

Style: 0x15CF8000

ExStyle: 0x00000110

Handle: 0x001C064C

>>>> Control <<<<

Class: Button

Instance: 11

ClassnameNN: Button11

Name:

Advanced (Class): [CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:11]

ID:

Text: Tx Message List

Position: 225, 152

Size: 561, 182

ControlClick Coords: 151, 43

Style: 0x50000007

ExStyle: 0x00000004

Handle: 0x000807FA

[BrewManNH]

First the control you're trying to read from isn't a list control, it's a listview control, there's a difference. Second, here's a script I put together to show how to get the text of the header of the listview you're trying to access.

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiListView.au3>
_Main()

Func _Main()
    Local $aInfo, $hListView

    GUICreate("ListView Get Column", 400, 300)
    $hListView = GUICtrlCreateListView("col1|col2|col3", 2, 2, 394, 268)
    _GUICtrlListView_SetExtendedListViewStyle($hListView, BitOR($LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT, $LVS_EX_CHECKBOXES))
    _GUICtrlListView_SetColumnWidth($hListView, 0, 100)
    GUISetState()

    GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("index 0|data1|more1", $hListView)
    GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("index 1|data2|more2", $hListView)
    GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("index 2|data3|more3", $hListView)
    GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("index 3|data4|more4", $hListView)
    GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("index 4|data5|more5", $hListView)
    Local $ColumnText = ""
    For $I = 0 To _GUICtrlListView_GetColumnCount($hListView) - 1
        $aInfo = _GUICtrlListView_GetColumn($hListView, $I)
        ConsoleWrite("Column header text for column #" & $I & " = " & $aInfo[5] & @CRLF)
        $ColumnText &= $aInfo[5] & "|"
    Next
    $ColumnText = StringTrimRight($ColumnText, 1)
    ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & "All column header text = " & $ColumnText & @CRLF)
    ; Loop until user exits
    Do
    Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

    GUIDelete()
EndFunc   ;==>_Main

It has been modified from the example script in _GUICtrlListView_GetColumn. There's more information about the columns in the listview that it can give you, but this demo shows how to get the header text.

[pammi]

I was able to fetch the column header names using _GUICtrlHeader_GetItemText. However I am not able to retrieve the column header type. In my example the first column is of checkbox type and I am not able to retrieve whether its enabled or not.

any help??

[pammi]

I mean the column header type in the listview control...

[BrewManNH]

The header information can't tell you if there are checkboxes. The listview has the style you're looking for, you'd need to use _GUICtrlListView_GetExtendedListViewStyle to get the style to see if there are checkboxes enabled in it. See the example in the help file for how to do that.