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Following up on the topic from yesterday with >difficult checkboxes appearing as a listbox (spy++ did not give extra information), I have thought of an idea:

  • The checkbox will always in same area. I only need to check 3 different
  • The color in a certain area of the checkbox will be different with a checkmark set

Now, while this should work, the actual color seems to depend on the skin / OS version used in Windows. Different from XP / Win7 / Vista and various themes.

So, my question: is it possible to calculate "color read a pixel (x,y) is between  values a  and  b" (yes/no). Meaning that various shades of grey will be different from green/blue checkmarks.

Or alternative: count unique colors used

This is perhaps a pretty unorthodox way of checking for checkbox status. Is the idea too far-fetched ?

I will have a look at PixelSearch UDFs around.  Never worked with it before, so happy to get ideas for this. Assume for example's case that checkbox is at 100,200 relative to child window. Size of checkbox 10x10 px.

- myicq

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Myicq,

That idea is not stupid at all - I have used it on occasion to find out if recalcitrant checkboxes are checked or not. ;)

However, I found using PixelCheckSum to be a better way to do it - always assuming you have some other checkboxes that you know are checked or not to compare with the one in which you are interested. That way you need not worry about differences between machines/themes as you are always looking at the same colors. So, do you have other checkboxes in this GUI from which you can get a template? :huh:

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GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
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help file shade-variation variable: PixelSearch ( left, top, right, bottom, color [, shade-variation [, step [, hwnd]]] )

shade-variation [optional] A number between 0 and 255 to indicate the allowed number of shades of variation of the red, green, and blue components of the colour. Default is 0 (exact match).

Maybe it's possible to get controls within the listbox?  a stretch, but try this:

consolewrite(WinGetClassList($hListView) & @crlf)

I know some controls within a window can have child controls...but generally, those are the classes starting with #

edit:  another long shot, _GUICtrlListBox_GetSelItemsText

Seems the selection and checked can be the same state

Looks like someone needs to make a UDF for CheckedListBox

http://www.functionx.com/vb/controls/checkedlistbox.htm

The CheckedListBox class is derived from the ListBox class. This means that the checked list box possesses all the public (and protected) characteristics of the list box and its parent the ListControl class. This control also uses the HorizontalScrollbar and the HorizontalExtent properties that behave exactly as we reviewed for the list box. It also uses the SelectionMode property with the same behavior as that of the list box.

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@Melba: this is an excellent idea, and actually I do have a checkbox of the 3 (at least) that is never checked. So I can just compare to that one and be done.

@jdelaney: look at the link to my previous post. I posted a picture there. Do not think it's a list per se, as I get no scroll. In any case, it's just 2 boxes that can vary so I think I will handle it.

But yes: there should be some way of using checkmarks with a listbox type.

I am just a hobby programmer, and nothing great to publish right now.

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>>>> Control <<<< Class: ListBox
Instance: 1 ClassnameNN:ListBox1
Name:
Advanced (Class): [CLASS:ListBox; INSTANCE:1]
ID: 1008
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From what research I've done on this, the listboxes with checkboxes are using an image list with 2 different images that are toggled between the 2, there's no actual checkbox control from what I can find. Not sure how you'd determine it other than trying to find out the imagelist item that's currently being used. No idea how to do that though.

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There are three states for the checkboxes, on, off indeterminate...and they do look a little diff in the windows environments...the answer is definitely in (google it) CheckedListBox:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.checkedlistbox.aspx

But, I have no idea what to do with it.

Specifically, loop through the full count on this list, against:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.checkedlistbox.getitemchecked.aspx

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Aha, so it's a .Net control, funny how that never showed up in the searches I did. Must have used the wrong search terms. :)

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I just tried suggestion from Melba23. The suggested works beautifully :

; example to evaluate checkboxes that can't be read


AutoItSetOption("PixelCoordMode", 0)  ; relative to WINDOW
; work on Properties window..
$WinTitle = "Properties"
WinWait($WinTitle)
WinActivate($WinTitle)

; my values, measured before.
$chkOff = "79385235"
$chkOn = "1984572738"

$bold_status = PixelChecksum(277, 94, 287, 104)
$italic_status = PixelChecksum(277, 108, 287, 118)

if $bold_status = $chkOn then 
    consoleWrite ("Bold is ON & @cr)
endif

only problem with this method is that the status can't be read directly from checksum, so it's necessary to test for values that are known in advance. And, of course, I can't directly manipulate checkboxes.

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