Problem in Hiding and Sending Keystrokes to Application Execution

[sreekanthrcs62]

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
Example()

Func Example()
Run("notepad.exe a.txt")
WinWait("a.txt - Notepad")
WinSetState("a.txt - Notepad","", @SW_HIDE)
Sleep(1000)
Local $value = ControlSend("a.txt - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "^a")
Sleep(2000)
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "AutoIt Example", $value)
Sleep(1000)
Local $value2 = ControlSend("a.txt - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "^c")
Sleep(2000)
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "AutoIt Example", $value2)
Sleep(1000)
Run("notepad.exe")
WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")
WinSetState("Untitled - Notepad","", @SW_HIDE)
Sleep(2000)
Local $value3 = ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "^v")
Sleep(1000)
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "AutoIt Example", $value3)
Sleep(1000)
WinSetState("Untitled - Notepad","", @SW_SHOW)
EndFunc

 

 

I tried to execute the above code with having"@SW_HIDE" values in the Run command.

Applications are hidden but the controlSend commands are not working fine. 

After removing the "@SW_HIDE" values in the Run command, controlsend command works, but the application window is not hidden.

I tried checking the flags returned from controlsend command. Flag Values are showing 1, I assume it is fine.

Please Could you help me to fix this problem. Thanks in advance.

Edited February 24, 2014 by sreekanthrcs62

[FireFox]

Hi,
Welcome to the autoit forum

First of all, can you edit your post and use >autoit code tags to post your code because here we will have to remove all the line numbers

Br, FireFox.

[reb]

AutoIt  Code Tags are much better to use and read.

 

because here we will have to remove all the line numbers

 

Out of curiosity I tried to copy the code in the first post

and the numbers did not copy. Pasted into SciTe correctly.

Just my observation  Win7 64  firefox 27.0.1

REB

Edited February 21, 2014 by reb

[FireFox]

My bad, it was just a remark I did not test it.

[FireFox]

The ControlSend function appears not to be working when the window is not active, in this case of the edit control.

Br, FireFox.

[FireFox]

After a few trys using some WinAPI function to reproduce the ControlSend command, the window must be active to send the keystrokes (here I'm using _WinAPI_SetForegroundWindow).

#include <WinAPISys.au3>

Example()

Func Example()
    Run("notepad.exe a.txt", "", @SW_HIDE)

    Local $hNotepad = WinWait("[TITLE:a.txt; CLASS:Notepad]")

    _WinAPI_SetForegroundWindow($hNotepad)

    ControlSend($hNotepad, "", "[CLASS:Edit; INSTANCE:1]", "^a")

    ;the following lines does not change anything for your information
;~  ControlSend($hNotepad, "", "[CLASS:Edit; INSTANCE:1]", "^c")

;~  ControlSend($hNotepad, "", "[CLASS:Edit; INSTANCE:1]", "^v")

    WinSetState($hNotepad, "", @SW_SHOW)
EndFunc   ;==>Example

_

Br, FireFox.

Edited February 22, 2014 by FireFox

[AdamUL]

From the Help file for ControlSend.

The control might first need to be given focus with the ControlFocus() command, specially when referencing an controlID created by the script itself.

 
This also applies to GUIs not created by the script itself.  As a rule of thumb, I always use ControlFocus before "Control" commands.  This should work for you.

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
Example()

Func Example()
    Run("notepad.exe a.txt","", @SW_HIDE)
    WinWait("a.txt - Notepad")
    WinSetState("a.txt - Notepad","", @SW_HIDE)
    Sleep(1000)
    ControlFocus("a.txt - Notepad", "", "Edit1")
    Local $value = ControlSend("a.txt - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "^a")
    Sleep(2000)
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "AutoIt Example", $value)
    Sleep(1000)
    ControlFocus("a.txt - Notepad", "", "Edit1")
    Local $value2 = ControlSend("a.txt - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "^c")
    Sleep(2000)
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "AutoIt Example", $value2)
    Sleep(1000)
    Run("notepad.exe","", @SW_HIDE)
    WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")
    WinSetState("Untitled - Notepad","", @SW_HIDE)
    Sleep(2000)
    ControlFocus("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1")
    Local $value3 = ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "^v")
    Sleep(1000)
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "AutoIt Example", $value3)
    Sleep(1000)
    WinSetState("Untitled - Notepad","", @SW_SHOW)
    WinSetState("a.txt - Notepad","", @SW_SHOW)
EndFunc

Adam

Edited February 23, 2014 by AdamUL

[FireFox]

Nice shot

[AdamUL]

Thanks,

As soon as I seen this thread, and your replay, I figured that it was a control focus issue.  

 

Adam

[sreekanthrcs62]

Thanks to all It worked. 

[sreekanthrcs62]

Methods you mentioned are working for the installed software e.g Notepad in the machine.

For software(.exe) file which can run without installation in the machine this methods of using @SW_HIDE doesn't work.

Below mentioned code doesn't hide the window for some *****.exe. 

Run("****.exe a.txt","", @SW_HIDE)     
WinWait("a.txt - Notepad")    
WinSetState("a.txt - Notepad","", @SW_HIDE)

Could you Please suggest some alternative.

Thanks in advance.

[BrewManNH]

Perhaps if you explained what software you're trying to run hidden that would help us help you. Just saying some software doesn't run hidden isn't much to go on.

BTW, some software will resist your attempts to run it hidden, it all depends on what the program does or how it was written.

[sreekanthrcs62]

The softwares are TextAnalysisTool and SequenceDiagramEditor. 

[Bert]

Maybe the installer supports command line switches.

also,(for other folks)  look here for info on the applications:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/delay/archive/2013/05/20/64-bits-ought-to-be-enough-for-everybody-textanalysistool-net-update-for-net-2-0-and-64-bit-enables-the-analysis-of-larger-files.aspx

 

http://sdedit.sourceforge.net/