Calculate checkbox position

[JasonTHEchristian]

Good morning, i am in the process of automating a very repatitve task that is basically nothing but a bunch of mouse clicks and copy and paste's. However in one particular window, i cannot "tab" to the field i need to select, it is also an application that autoIT's window info wont return any information on besides window title and mouse position (encompix). SO...i figured since this particular field is always in the same position in the window, depending on the size and position of the window (multiple users will be using this) i can calculate the position of the field. however i suck at math so i cannot remember how to calculate the coordinates. Here are some sample coordinates if you would like to help. Window position -831x 39y, and window size is 731w x 510h, with this the position of the field i want to simulate a mouse click on -573x, 367y. Any help will be met with gratuitous praise and thanks!

[jdelaney]

I'd suggest changing the MouseCoordMode:

AutoItSetOption("MouseCoordMode", 2)

that makes all x,y coords relative to the client of the active window (make sure your expected window is active).

If not using that option, use WinGetPos, and take out the X,Y, and then figure it out from there

edit: you can get the x,y coord relative to the client of the active window through the autoitinfo tool

Edited August 8, 2012 by jdelaney

[JasonTHEchristian]

I'll try that, thanks for the super fast response YOU ROCK!

[JasonTHEchristian]

YES! it worked! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spiff59]

You'll probably run into issues with users who have different screen resolutions.

I don't beleive GUI's are redrawn exactly to scale when changing resolution, so you'll find some attempted button clicks will come out as misses. I think you'll either need to store separate location values for each resolution for each control, or switch to Send()ing characters to navigate around the window.

[JasonTHEchristian]

I couldnt send character's to navigate, this particular field is only "activated" by a mouse click for whatever reason, but thats a good point about different screen resolutions, i imagine that i could get the window size and then calculate the x,y position from that. Thanks for that point!

[Spiff59]

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