Controlgettext()

[shaqan]

I have checked the Help over and over but the damned thing simply does not work for me.

in Help

ControlGetText ( "title", "text", controlID )

Sample states

ControlGetText("[CLASS:Notepad]", "", "Edit1")

But when I try to use

ControlGetText("[CLASS:ProFrame]", "Piiriületus","ComboBox16")

all I get is an empty error.. And even this I know only because of "If @error Then" statement I added..

Au3Info window

Could you please clarify the exact meaning of

"The title of the window to access."

and

"The text of the window to access."

Why is [CLASS:whatever] used instead of title with the first one..?

And what exactly should be for the second.. the sentence is pretty much fog for me though I understand each and every word in it. Maybe my English simply sucks (3rd language)..

I tried to find examples from the ready scripts in forum but Search turned up very vague results..

Thank you in advance

Weird part of it is, I have used ControlGetText before, with other programs and it has worked well.. It's acting weird only with this one. Figured I'm making some fundamental mistake somewhere..

Edited December 24, 2012 by shaqan

[BrewManNH]

What happens when you don't use "Piiriületus" and just use "" for the text of the window instead?

The title can be either the window title, or one of several alternate items that can be used in place of it.

From the help file:

Advanced Window Descriptions

A special description can be used as the window title parameter. This description can be used to identify a window by the following properties:

• TITLE - Window title
• CLASS - The internal window classname
• REGEXPTITLE - Window title using a regular expression (if the regular expression is wrong @error will be set to 2)
• REGEXPCLASS - Window classname using a regular expression (if the regular expression is wrong @error will be set to 2)
• LAST - Last window used in a previous AutoIt command
• ACTIVE - Currently active window
• X \ Y \ W \ H - The position and size of a window
• INSTANCE - The 1-based instance when all given properties match

The text portion can usually be left blank unless you're looking for a specific window and there is more than one of the same window open that would match the title.

[shaqan]

What happens when you don't use "Piiriületus" and just use "" for the text of the window instead?

The result would be "Piiriületus" (which is actually the title of the window and should'nt be the result If I figure things accurately)

.. instead of text displayed inside control (what would be the data I am after)

Edited December 24, 2012 by shaqan