How to Get a File Menu Item Opened?

[GIS007]

Hello All-

I am having problems trying to write a simple script. I am using SciTe version 3.2.0 & the AU3 Recorder & AutoIt v3. Here’s what the script needs to do:

• Open a program

• Go to a file item

• Select a file by browsing out to the network

• Then click Open-

• Then click the Run button - then allow the file to process (this takes about 25 minutes)

• Then click Done.

My code will open the program but then it pauses – the file item never opens (it’s called “Shapefile/DBF Maintenance” in my script. If I click on the AutoIT icon in my tray, it says Script Paused. So I have to Exit out of it.

Since I am using the keystrokes to open this file (control + A, & then the up arrow to select that particular item from the drop down), shouldn’t it appear on my screen? All that apparently is happening is the program is opening. I also tried to write it using the WinMenuSelectItem function but didn’t get anywhere with that, either.

Below is my code (the ID #s came from the AutoIT Window Info tool):

Run("C:\Program Files (x86)\Pictometry\ChangeAnalysis2.7\ChangeAnalysis.exe")
WinActivate("Pictometry EFS -")
Send("!a")
Send("{UP}")
Send("{Enter}")
WinWaitActive("Annotate/Shapefile/DBF Maintenance")
ControlClick("Shapefile/DBF Maintenance", "Browse...", "[ID:2333]")
WinActivate("Open", "2")
Send("L:\Analyst\PdxBatch.pbt")
WinActivate("Open", "10")
Send("{Enter}")
WinWaitActive("Shapefile/DBF Maintenance")
ControlClick("Shapefile/DBF Maintenance", "Run", "[ID:2334]")
WinWaitActive("Shapefile/DBF Maintenance", "List1", "30")
ControlClick("Shapefile/DBF Maintenance", "Done", "[ID:1]")
WinClose("ChangeAnalysis- ")

Can anyone tell me what I could be doing wrong? I am running Windows 7, & I do have some issues with permissions over the network but it seems my code stops before I even have to jump that hurdle!

Thanks for helping a newbie out!

[BrewManNH]

I'm guessing this line "WinActivate("Pictometry EFS -")" isn't matching the title of the window because that's not the whole title? Use "Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) if you're using a partial title match if that's not the entire title.

[GIS007]

OK, I will try that, thank you! The title does have some crazy spacing in it, maybe there is a space behind the "-"? Thanks

[careca]

Those combinations of ctrl something, sometimes give trouble, keys lock up and such.

[GIS007]

Thanks for the help! It's running but I notice that sometimes, the first time I run the executable it returns a message "File not found." I double checked my code & I have named the file correctly. If I run the exe again it opens & processes like it should. Maybe it's the use of Ctrl + Keys, but I'll have to work to figure out how to write it without that. It's a drop down menu, I thought using keystroke to access it would be the easiest? Is there a better way?

[careca]

You can always click it, or control click.