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Can anybody suggest a way to detect the menu state for an application, I am trying to control. For example in certain situations the File->Print option is disabled. I don't want to select the menu item I just want to know that it is enabled\disabled.

Anybody any ideas?

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Actually I tired this and thought it was working but infact it doesn't appear to be working.

$hMainMenu = _GUICtrlMenu_GetMenu($hWnd)
$iDataIndex = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hMainMenu, "Data")
$hDataMenu = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemSubMenu($hMainMenu, $iDataIndex)
$iPrintIndex = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hDataMenu, "Print...")
$PrintState = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemEnabled($hDataMenu, $iPrintIndex)

$PrintState Appears to be True for everything apart from the horizontal breaker lines in the menu, every other item returns True, even those that are grayed out. So then I tried GetItemGrayed, and that produces identical results apart from everything is false, apart from the breaker lines.

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Have you tried with _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemState?

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Here is short (Very Quick and Dirty) script to test with a freshly opened Notepad

#include "GuiMenu.au3"
WinActivate("Untitled - Notepad")
$hWnd = WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad")
$hMainMenu = _GUICtrlMenu_GetMenu($hWnd)
$iDataIndex = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hMainMenu, "Edit")
$hDataMenu = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemSubMenu($hMainMenu, $iDataIndex)
$iPrintIndex = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hDataMenu, "Replace..."&@TAB&"Ctrl+H")
$PrintState = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemEnabled($hDataMenu, $iPrintIndex)
$iPrintIndex2 = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hDataMenu, "Cut"&@TAB&"Ctrl+X")
$PrintState2 = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemEnabled($hDataMenu, $iPrintIndex2)

On a fresh copy of Notepad with a blank document and nothing selected Cut should be disabled, however Replace isn't so we should see 2 different values. I don't so wether it's down to me, my setup or something else I'm not sure

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Using your scenario, run this script and see what the consolewrites return for enabled and disabled controls in the edit menu of Notepad.

#include "GuiMenu.au3"
WinActivate("Untitled - Notepad")
$hWnd = WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad")
$hMainMenu = _GUICtrlMenu_GetMenu($hWnd)
$iDataIndex = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hMainMenu, "Edit")
$hDataMenu = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemSubMenu($hMainMenu, $iDataIndex)
$iPrintIndex = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hDataMenu, "Replace..."&@TAB&"Ctrl+H")
$PrintState = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemState($hDataMenu, $iPrintIndex)
ConsoleWrite('@@ Debug(' & @ScriptLineNumber & ') : $PrintState = ' & $PrintState & @crlf & '>Error code: ' & @error & @crlf) ;### Debug Console
$iPrintIndex2 = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hDataMenu, "Cut"&@TAB&"Ctrl+X")
$PrintState2 = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemState($hDataMenu, $iPrintIndex2)
ConsoleWrite('@@ Debug(' & @ScriptLineNumber & ') : $PrintState2 = ' & $PrintState2 & @crlf & '>Error code: ' & @error & @crlf) ;### Debug Console
$iPrintIndex3 = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hDataMenu, "Copy"&@TAB&"Ctrl+C")
$PrintState3 = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemState($hDataMenu, $iPrintIndex3)
ConsoleWrite('@@ Debug(' & @ScriptLineNumber & ') : $PrintState3 = ' & $PrintState3 & @crlf & '>Error code: ' & @error & @crlf) ;### Debug Console
$iPrintIndex4 = _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem($hDataMenu, "Select All"&@TAB&"Ctrl+A")
$PrintState4 = _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemState($hDataMenu, $iPrintIndex4)
ConsoleWrite('@@ Debug(' & @ScriptLineNumber & ') : $PrintState3 = ' & $PrintState4 & @crlf & '>Error code: ' & @error & @crlf) ;### Debug Console

If the control isn't disabled, it won't be any of the values 4,8, or 12, or any number that has 4, 8, or 12 added to it.

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That gets 2 12s as Expected

@@ Debug(63) : $PrintState = 0
>Error code: 0
@@ Debug(82) : $PrintState2 = 12
>Error code: 0
@@ Debug(101) : $PrintState3 = 12
>Error code: 0
@@ Debug(120) : $PrintState3 = 0
>Error code: 0

Which I only got on the breakers for my code. Even when I tried GetItemState, I'll go back and Try GetItemState on my code again, maybe I cocked something up first time.

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Hmmm, never simple if I rewrite the sample code I uploaded with GetItemState that now works as expected. However I then move to my real app, which is unfortunately with an app I can't share. It doesn't work.

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Doesn't work doesn't say much about what's not working.

Are you able to get the control ID of the menu using _GUICtrlMenu_GetMenu?

Are you able to get the item index of the menu using _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem?

Are you able to get anything using _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemState on that item?

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Doesn't work doesn't say much about what's not working.

Are you able to get the control ID of the menu using _GUICtrlMenu_GetMenu?

The debugger shows a blank field, but on the otherhand it isn't failing and the resultgives "sensible" results later so I assume this is just the debugger.

Are you able to get the item index of the menu using _GUICtrlMenu_FindItem?

Yes The index is returned, and is the correct value, for where I would expect it to be.

Are you able to get anything using _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemState on that item?

Yes I am getting 0 for any text items on the menu. And 12 for the breaker lines on the menu.

Troubleshooting is 1 part art, 1 part science, and 1 part experience. You need to find out where it's failing before you can begin to figure out why it's failing.

My take on the above is that the first 2 parts are working, and the final stage is failing.

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The debugger shows a blank field, but on the otherhand it isn't failing and the resultgives "sensible" results later so I assume this is just the debugger.

Use ConsoleWrites to display the contents of the variable, don't use a debugger at this stage. You're going to get much faster results just letting it print out in SciTE.

Yes The index is returned, and is the correct value, for where I would expect it to be.

Yes I am getting 0 for any text items on the menu. And 12 for the breaker lines on the menu.

So where is it failing? If you're getting the results you expect, what isn't working as expected?

My take on the above is that the first 2 parts are working, and the final stage is failing.

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Okay I've written a little Function that test all the lines on the menu 1 to 8. Running this function as standalone test script it works fine, with both the grayed out items, and the breaker line returning 12. And All other items returning 0. This is exactly as expected.

Now Cut and Paste the function into my script, and call it. Only the breaker lines return 12, and the grayed out items return 0 along with the normal items.

At the point the functions is called, the status on the menu might have just changed, is it possible a cached version is being returned??

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From looking at the actual functions, there's no cached state being accessed. Without being able to see your code, or know what application you're trying to automate, it's impossible to help any further.

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I haven't tested how reliable it is yet, but it would appear that opening the menu for second cures it. So just after activating the window, but before getting the handle I do (in my case) a

Send("!D")
Sleep(1000)
Send("{ESC}{ESC}")

After that it returns the correct results for the tests I've done so far.

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