How to handle two different possibilties for control window

[blehbloo]

I've wrote a program that will successfully use ControlSend and ControlClick to work its way through an application.

The issue I'm running into is that for some reason, the application will sometimes have a different Class and ClassnameNN, which will throw everything off.  I believe that there are only two possible scenarios for the application to have as its Control information:

Scenario 1: 

CLASS:               WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.e4c6c4

ClassnameNN:    WindowsForms10.EDIT.app.0.e4c6c42

Scenario 2: 

CLASS:               CLASS:WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.3d90434

ClassnameNN:    WindowsForms10.EDIT.app.0.3d904342

 

My question is, what is a good way to make my script smart enough to check what scenario it is and then use the appropriate CLASS and ClassNameNN to control the application?

[MikahS]

Wouldn't this be done with a simple conditional statement at the start of the script to check which class and classnameNN it is? Unless it changes while your script is running; is that the case?

Edited August 18, 2014 by MikahS

[blehbloo]

Wouldn't this be done with a simple conditional statement at the start of the script to check which class and classnameNN it is? Unless it changes while your script is running; is that the case?

 

No, it doesn't change while the script it running.

I'm not sure how to have your script check what the Window info it.  I'm a AutoIt rookie but the only way I'm aware to get Window information is to use the AutoIt Window tool and visually look at what the Class and ClassnameNN names are and type that into your script.

How do I tell my script to automatically check what class info is being presented and then follow that scenario's tree?

Edited August 18, 2014 by blehbloo

[MikahS]

Is the class information the only info on the window you see? Does it have a title? You can make a conditional like so..

Local $title, $active, $class1 = ;first class goes here
Local $class2 = ;second class goes here
 
$title = WinExist($class1)
If $title = 0 Then
    $title = WinExist($class2)
    If $title = 0 Then
        MsgBox(0, "title", "Could not find the window")
        Exit
    Else
        $title = $class2
    EndIf
Else
    $title = $class1
EndIf
 
$active = WinWaitActive($title)
If $active = 0 Then
    MsgBox(0, "title", "Could not make the window active")
    Exit
EndIf
; rest of the script goes after this...

EDIT: Let me know how it goes so I can help further if need be ; fixed solution to actually work. Slight oversight on my part

Edited August 18, 2014 by MikahS

[blehbloo]

Mikah, thanks for the help.  I'm going to try this out this tonight and I'll let you know how it goes.

[MikahS]

Sounds good @blehbloo

[MikahS]

Fixed due to not having correct value in $title when calling WinWaitActive(), see >post 4

[jguinch]

Did you try with REGEXPCLASS ?

$hWnd = WinGetHandle("[REGEXPCLASS:WindowsForms10\.Window\.8\.app\.0\..+]")

[MikahS]

Updated code to use jguinch's solution; it is another solution, but better ability to get the window handle

Local $hWnd, $active
 
$hWnd = WinGetHandle("[REGEXPCLASS:WindowsForms10\.Window\.8\.app\.0\..+]")
If @error Then
    MsgBox(0, "error", "Could not get handle to the window")
    Exit
EndIf
 
$active = WinWaitActive($hWnd)
If $active = 0 Then
    MsgBox(0, "error", "Could not find window to make it active")
    Exit
EndIf
;rest of code goes here...

[blehbloo]

Fixed due to not having correct value in $title when calling WinWaitActive(), see >post 4

Thanks, MikahS and jguinch.  Using your code, I was able to work out what I needed.

[MikahS]

glad to hear @blehbloo