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Hello again all!

Everyone has been a great help with my work so far, but I have come across something that hopefully has a simple solution.

I have a window that the Info tool can grab all control info from and easily identify the text of said controls. The window in question is below.

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The text I am trying to grab are the acct, history and chart numbers. The output of the info tool is as follow:

>>>> Window <<<<
Title:   Admission/Registration Confirmation Screen
Class:  LSPANEL
Position:   587, 307
Size:   764, 461
Style:  0x94C40000
ExStyle:    0x00000100
Handle: 0x00000000000E1134

>>>> Control <<<<
Class:  LSSTATIC
Instance:   29
ClassnameNN:    LSSTATIC29
Name:   
Advanced (Class):   [CLASS:LSSTATIC; INSTANCE:29]
ID: 5
Text:   2000684
Position:   224, 39
Size:   60, 14
ControlClick Coords:    30, 7
Style:  0x5400008C
ExStyle:    0x00000004
Handle: 0x00000000000E1140

I have tried several variations of of things to get AutoIT to interact with the window. This was my latest

ControlFocus("Admission/Registration Confirmation Screen", "", "#327701")
;ControlClick("Admission/Registration Confirmation Screen", "", "LSBMPBUT4")
;Local $sText = ControlGetText("Admission/Registration Confirmation Screen","",     "[CLASS:LSSTATIC; INSTANCE:29]")
;Local $sText1 = WinGetTitle("Admission/Registration Confirmation Screen", "")
;MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The text in LSSTATIC29 is: " & $sText)
;MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The text in LSSTATIC29 is: " & $sText1)

I've also tried just having LSSTATIC29, etc.

After messing with everything for awhile, it seems AutoIt simply has issues working with this window at all as I can't get it to ControlClick the button either. All other windows of this nature have been completely usable. I noticed that with this particular window ,while I can identify the controls, when I click and hold - it allows me to drag a box across the window. Not sure if this matters or not, but thought it might be important for identifying the type of window.

I can't think of anything else I might be leaving out, but if there are any questions please let me know and I will get back to you as soon as I can. I will be working on the rest of this project on and off for the weekend. Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give!

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I have. I will try it again to be sure, but it still returned null. It just seems to have a problem with this window in particular. Is there any other way to get AutoIt to recognize it. It is driving me crazy since every other window has worked just fine. I don't know what could be different from the others.

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What is the title of your window? There seems to be some characters before the "/"-character. Have you tried to identify the window with the last part of the title ("Registration Confirmation Screen")? Or directly with the window handle?

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https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/WinActivate.htm

build it in steps

First make sure you have the window itself

; Wait 10 seconds for the window to appear.
    Local $hWnd = WinWait("[REGEXPTITLE:.*Registration Confirmation Screen.*]", "", 10)

    ; Activate the window using the handle returned by WinWait.
    WinActivate($hWnd)
    WinMove($hWnd, "", 10, 10)

and then just iterate over all children

As AU3Inf is seeing them properly it should be possible with the standard functions.

If not you could give a try to IUIAutomation in Examples section

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Thank you all for the responses. I have been out and unable to continue work the last few days, but will give all of this a try and let you know what seems to be working.

@jvds Each label has its own instance and class name, but they are static in the sense that they are the same every time if that's what you are asking.

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To sum up -

1) This particular window's issue was solved by identifying it as "[REGEXPTITLE:.*Registration Confirmation Screen."

This allowed me to easily identify any of the buttons/labels I was having trouble with.

2) Additionally - I was having some other issues with identifying buttons in another window(I think it may have been hidden by a label in the application), but the child list/iteration helped me figure that out.

Thanks to everyone again, I'm super grateful for all the help you all have already provided!

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