How can I retrieve a Dynamic Control ID ?

[jrahman 0]

Hi All:

Using AutoIT (v3.3.10.2) I am trying to automate a test for a handheld device using an emulator named MyMobiler on Windows 7.

The screen shots and relevant steps of my problem could be seen in the link below:

http://howtoreaddynamiccontrolid.blogspot.ca/

Problem description:

1. Each time I start the emulator the Control ID changes to something new. It means, each new instance of the emulator will generate dynamic Control ID
2. In my AutoIT script, how can I read this dynamic Control ID value of the emulator and use in the rest of the script without doing change the script every time I would run the test

Thanks

 

[jdelaney 313]

Post in the ID structure...you can use regular expressions, or instance based.

HelpFile = 'Controls' to see all the ways to grab controls.

Send back the output of this...after starting the script, activate your window (quickly)

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#include <Winapi.au3>
Sleep(5000)
Var_GetAllWindowsControls(WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]"))
Func Var_GetAllWindowsControls($hCallersWindow)
    ; Get all list of controls
    $sClassList = WinGetClassList($hCallersWindow)

    ; Create array
    $aClassList = StringSplit($sClassList, @CRLF, 2)

    ; Sort array
    _ArraySort($aClassList)
    _ArrayDelete($aClassList, 0)

    ; Loop
    $iCurrentClass = ""
    $iCurrentCount = 1
    $iTotalCounter = 1

    For $i = 0 To UBound($aClassList) - 1
        If $aClassList[$i] = $iCurrentClass Then
            $iCurrentCount += 1
        Else
            $iCurrentClass = $aClassList[$i]
            $iCurrentCount = 1
        EndIf

        $hControl = ControlGetHandle($hCallersWindow, "", "[CLASSNN:" & $iCurrentClass & $iCurrentCount & "]")
        $text = StringRegExpReplace(ControlGetText($hCallersWindow, "", $hControl), "[\n\r]", "{@CRLF}")
        $aPos = ControlGetPos($hCallersWindow, "", $hControl)
        $sControlID = _WinAPI_GetDlgCtrlID($hControl)
        If IsArray($aPos) Then
            ConsoleWrite("Func=[Var_GetAllWindowsControls]: ControlCounter=[" & StringFormat("%3s", $iTotalCounter) & "] ControlID=[" & StringFormat("%5s", $sControlID) & "] Handle=[" & StringFormat("%10s", $hControl) & "] ClassNN=[" & StringFormat("%19s", $iCurrentClass & $iCurrentCount) & "] XPos=[" & StringFormat("%4s", $aPos[0]) & "] YPos=[" & StringFormat("%4s", $aPos[1]) & "] Width=[" & StringFormat("%4s", $aPos[2]) & "] Height=[" & StringFormat("%4s", $aPos[3]) & "] Text=[" & $text & "]." & @CRLF)
        Else
            ConsoleWrite("Func=[Var_GetAllWindowsControls]: ControlCounter=[" & StringFormat("%3s", $iTotalCounter) & "] ControlID=[" & StringFormat("%5s", $sControlID) & "] Handle=[" & StringFormat("%10s", $hControl) & "] ClassNN=[" & StringFormat("%19s", $iCurrentClass & $iCurrentCount) & "] XPos=[winclosed] YPos=[winclosed] Width=[winclosed] Height=[winclosed] Text=[" & $text & "]" & @CRLF)
        EndIf
        If Not WinExists($hCallersWindow) Then ExitLoop
        $iTotalCounter += 1
    Next
EndFunc   ;==>Var_GetAllWindowsControls

Edited January 10, 2014 by jdelaney

[jrahman 0]

 

Post in the ID structure...you can use regular expressions, or instance based.

Send back the output of this...after starting the script, activate your window (quickly)

 

Thanks jdelaney

,

As requested, below is the output of the script you attached earlier:

Note that, I am ONLY interested for the first control (ControlID=[5240388])

Func=[Var_GetAllWindowsControls]: ControlCounter=[  1] ControlID=[5240388] Handle=[0x0002076C] ClassNN=[      ATL:0025B3A01] XPos=[   0] YPos=[  54] Width=[ 240] Height=[ 320] Text=[].
Func=[Var_GetAllWindowsControls]: ControlCounter=[  2] ControlID=[59392] Handle=[0x0002076A] ClassNN=[     ReBarWindow321] XPos=[   0] YPos=[   0] Width=[ 240] Height=[  54] Text=[].
Func=[Var_GetAllWindowsControls]: ControlCounter=[  3] ControlID=[59392] Handle=[0x00020768] ClassNN=[   ToolbarWindow321] XPos=[   9] YPos=[  29] Width=[ 215] Height=[  23] Text=[].
Func=[Var_GetAllWindowsControls]: ControlCounter=[  4] ControlID=[5240448] Handle=[0x00060658] ClassNN=[    WTL_CommandBar1] XPos=[   9] YPos=[   2] Width=[ 227] Height=[  21] Text=[].

Edited January 11, 2014 by jrahman

[jrahman 0]

With the help from the example script sent by  jdelaney, I have successfully solved the problem to retrieve the ControlID of an Windows object which creates dynamic control ID every time a new instance is invoked.

Following code can be used for retrieving ID of any object whose Control is not predetermined or known.

Usage:

1. Copy and save the following code to your local drive (from where you usually run other .au3 scripts)

2. Change the first two global variable values (in this example, I am using 'MyMobiler' and '3')

3. Run the script

4 Activate the object under test by mouse click after script run

Expected Result:

1. A message box will appear with the ControlID

Comment:

1. You may replace the MsgBox with file or console output

Code:

#include <Winapi.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

;//Change these two parameters value to find the dynamic control ID for an object
Dim $ObjectTitle = "MyMobiler"
Dim $ArrayElement = 3

GetDynamicControlID($ObjectTitle, $ArrayElement)

;//Function to get the Dynamic Control ID of an Windows object (in this example 'MyMobiler')
Func GetDynamicControlID($objTitle, $arrElement)
  ;Activate the object and retieve the list of windows controls in a string list
  WinWaitActive($objTitle)
  Local $stringClassList = WinGetClassList(WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]"))
  If @error Then
     MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "ERROR:", "No window named " & $objTitle & " found and no string list of class retuned")
  Else
     ;Create an array and put all string list into that array
     Local $arrayClassList = StringSplit($stringClassList, @CRLF, 2)
     $ControlID = "[CLASS:" & $arrayClassList[$arrElement] & "; INSTANCE:1]"
     MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "SUCCESS:", "Window object named " & $objTitle & " found and string list of class returned: " & $ControlID)
  EndIf

  Return

EndFunc

[RadicalKoncepts 1]

I came across a condition where I can get valid window handle. However WinGetClassList returns empty! May I learn here to understand, under what condition does this function returns nothing? Am I missing anything? Please advise.

[Nine 931]

Show your code !  And check @error. 

[RadicalKoncepts 1]

#include "MsgBoxConstants.au3"
#include ".\libs\UIAWrappers.au3"
#include ".\libs\CUIAutomation2.au3"
#include "MsgBoxConstants.au3"
#include ".\libs\CUIAutomation2.au3"
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <FileConstants.au3>
#include ".\libs\ISimpleDOM.au3"
#include ".\libs\MSAccessibility.au3"
#include "WinAPIProc.au3"
#include "WinAPISys.au3"
#include "APISysConstants.au3"
#include "GUIConstantsEx.au3"
#include <GUIListView.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiListBox.au3>

; AutoItSetOption("MustDeclareVars", 1)
Sleep(15000)

_UIA_setVar("Global.Highlight", True)

; Wait 50 seconds for the Notepad window to appear.
WinWait("[Title:Edit Template - WINDOW_TITLE]", "", 50)

; Retrieve the handle of the Edit Template window...
WinActivate("[Title:Edit Template - WINDOW_TITLE]", "")
Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("[Title:Edit Template - WINDOW_TITLE]")
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "xyzgyVisitNote", $hWnd)        ; SK_VALID; WORKS

$iCmd = 6
Local $hWnd1 = _WinAPI_GetWindow ( $hWnd, $iCmd )

WinActivate("[ACTIVE]")
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "xyzgyVisitNote", $hWnd1)        ; SK_VALID; WORKS
Sleep(2000)    ;

Local $sClassList = WinGetClassList($hWnd1)        ; HELP REQUIRED HERE? Why it returns nothing; Note- This is a runtime window and I managed to get handle

If @error Then
     MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "ERROR:", "Error Found")
  Else
     MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "ERROR:", "No Error Found")    ; Getting this as output
EndIf

$text = _WinAPI_GetClassName(WinGetHandle("[ACTIVE]"))
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "xyzgyVisitNote", $text)        ; SK_VALID; WORKS

;~ $hControl = ControlGetHandle($hWnd1, "", "[CLASSNN:" & $text & "]")
;~ MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "xyzgyVisitNote", $hControl)

Local $hWnd2 = ControlGetHandle($hWnd1, "", "[class:ClumpEditorControl]")
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "xyzgyVisitNote", $hWnd2)

$iCount = ControlListView($hWnd2, "", "[class:ListBox]", "GetItemCount")
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "xyzgyNonCNote", $iCount)

_WinAPI_CloseWindow($hWnd1)    ;
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "xyzgyNonCNote", "DONE")
 

[Nine 931]

Hard to say, since I cannot run your script.  Have you tried other Win* () functions.  Like WinGetTitle ($hWnd1), what does it say ?

And use <> to post your code (just before emoticon).