SetControlText with windows handle ?

[Algotek]

Hi, first use of AutoIt.

I have the following info:

-the main application handle (hwnd1)

-the dialog handle (hwnd2) (the dialog is already opened and belongs to hwnd1)

-the dialog text control (hwnd3) (this is where I want to write)

How can I call SetControlText with this information ?

Edited August 17, 2012 by Algotek

[Danyfirex]

Put your code.

did you mean GUICtrlSetData?

Edited August 17, 2012 by Danyfirex

[Algotek]

Sorry, the exact name is

ControlSetText ( "title", "text", controlID, "new text" [, flag] )

I would like to directly take advantage of the windows handles (which are easily available from my program),

instead of specifying class, titles, or controlid.

Or translte the handles to whatever parameter this ControlSetText takes.

[Danyfirex]

did you look into help file?

A good example

Run("notepad.exe")
WinWait("[CLASS:Notepad]")
ControlSetText("[CLASS:Notepad]", "", "Edit1", "New Text Here")

[Algotek]

Sure, I did look to documentation.

I would like to directly take advantage of the windows handles (which are easily available from my program),

instead of specifying class, titles, or controlid.

Or translate somehow the handles to whatever parameter this ControlSetText takes.

The following does not work, although every single variable is OK according to the AutoIt Window Info

sub settext(hwnd2 as long,hwnd3 as long, stext as string)

Dim theclass As String

theclass = getmywindowclass(hwnd2) 'some routine that returns the class based on hwnd2

Dim thetitle As String

thetitle = getwindowtext(hwnd2) 'some routine that returns the caption of hwnd2

Dim ctrl_id As Long

ctrl_id = GetDlgCtrlID(hwnd3) .some Win api routine that return the ctrl id

Dim bsuccess As Boolean

'first try, as documented

bsuccess = (ai.ControlSetText("[CLASS:" + theclass + "]", thetitle, ctrl_id, stext) = 1)

'no success !!

'second try (usage not documented, and does not work)

bsuccess = (ai.ControlSetText(hwnd2, "", hwnd3, stext) = 1)

'no success !!

[Danyfirex]

Can you show your whole code?

[BrewManNH]

Your script isn't in the AutoIt language format, so it's not going to work with AutoIt.

[Algotek]

@brewman: I'm using the AutoIt com object (ai) my code is in vb

In documentation, I found the following helpful topic

Window Titles and Text (Advanced)

At the end, it says

When you use a window handle for the title parameter then the text parameter is completely ignored.

The problem was that the hwnd2 I was using was a long.

AutoIt expects a pointer to the window (a variant)

Still not clear if ControlSetText 3rd parameter can be a hwnd.