ControlDisable issues

[aleph01 15]

Greetings, and thanks in advance for any help.

My experiments attempting to get ControlDisable to actually disable a control have been a failure. So far, I’ve only tried this on Notepad, but, although Notepad is grayed out, it still takes input during my sleep interval (the input is gray as well) and when I run ControlEnable a few seconds later, the text becomes black. It’s a little amusing, but I must be using ControlDisable incorrectly.

Run ("notepad.exe")
WinWait ("Untitled")
ControlDisable("Untitled", "", 15)
Sleep (10000)
ControlEnable("Untitled", "", 15)

[jdelaney 312]

Run ("notepad.exe")
WinWait ("Untitled")
ControlHide("Untitled", "", 15)
ControlFocus("Untitled", "", 1025)
Sleep (5000)
ControlShow("Untitled", "", 15)

or:

Run ("notepad.exe")
WinWait ("Untitled")
ControlDisable("Untitled", "", 15)
ControlFocus("Untitled", "", 1025)
Sleep (5000)
ControlEnable("Untitled", "", 15)

main point is to focus on something else, after disabling

Edited April 4, 2013 by jdelaney

[aleph01 15]

Thanks, jdelaney. That should be mentioned in the Help file.