javaw based program can't be controlled by AutoIt

[Paradox34690]

Hi everyone,

Have a bizarre question - 

Is it possible that AutoIt cannot see anything (and I mean literally anything) about a javaw.exe based application?

The javaw.exe based application is a confidential application used and developed by the company I work for. I am the my departments IT guy, have developed multiple vb.net applications and utilities for internal use, and am working on a metrics-based initiative for the department.

Long story short, the simplest way for me to do what I'm trying to accomplish is to tally metrics points based off of what buttons users click while inside of this javaw.exe based application. My original plan was to do some "import" statements in VB and utilize the AutoIt libraries to facilitate "button sensing", but it doesn't appear that this is going to work as I had hoped.

Here's a pull of the AutoIt v3 Window Info > summary tab so you can see what I mean; no ">>> Control <<<" items are ever listed:

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>>>> Window <<<<
Title: United States - [Removed for confidentiality reasons] | 8:12:52 PM EDT
Class: SunAwtFrame
Position: 41, 32
Size: 1240, 944
Style: 0x16CF0000
ExStyle: 0x00000100
Handle: 0x0066032E


>>>> Control <<<<
Class: 
Instance: 
ClassnameNN: 
Name: 
Advanced (Class): 
ID: 
Text: 
Position: 
Size: 
ControlClick Coords: 
Style: 
ExStyle: 
Handle: 


>>>> Mouse <<<<
Position: 1101, 371
Cursor ID: 2
Color: 0xEEEEEE


>>>> StatusBar <<<<


>>>> ToolsBar <<<<


>>>> Visible Text <<<<




>>>> Hidden Text <<<<

Thoughts?

[Melba23]

Paradox34690,

 

Is it possible that AutoIt cannot see anything (and I mean literally anything) about a javaw.exe based application?

Unfortunately: Yes.

There is Java UDF but I have no idea how useful it might be to you.

M23

[junkew]

I am automating lotus notes 8.5 with this

'?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>

try the simple spy in that thread to see if there is more recognized

And as far as I am aware lotus notes is written in Java