How to find a control if ID duplicates

[birbird]

Can you please tell us which application you try to automate?

I could provide all the infomation of the application to you.

But now I just need make a progress. And I have already found some hope from the document, https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/intro/controls.htm

It says we can identify a control by position and size. But this piece of code just not work

$hWnd = WinWait("[W:423; H:323]")
ConsoleWrite($hWnd & @CRLF)

Local $sText = ControlGetText($hWnd, "", "[ID:323]")
ConsoleWrite($sText & @CRLF)

Local $sText2 = ControlGetText($hWnd, "", "[X:150; Y:70; W:50; H:16]")
ConsoleWrite($sText2 & @CRLF)

Could you please tell me what is the right way to do this. Thanks a lot.

[water]

You do not try to access the same controls as you have posted in the screenshots?
What is the value of @error after calling ControlgetText.

[JohnOne]

I cannot get it to work either, just returns empty string and sets @error to 1

[water]

This works for me:

#include <Array.au3>
$aPos = WinGetPos("Unbenannt - Editor") ; Get the position of the Window
_ArrayDisplay($aPos)
$hWnd = WinGetHandle("[X:139; Y:341; W:638; H:438]") ; Values taken from the _ArrayDisplay
$aPos = ControlGetPos($hWnd, "", 15) ; Get the position of the Control. The same values as taken from AutoIt Window Info Tool
_ArrayDisplay($aPos)
$sText = ControlGetText($hWnd, "", "[X:0; Y: 0; W:622; H:380]")
ConsoleWrite($sText & @CRLF)

 

[JohnOne]

Appears it works on some controls, not others.

Here is how I tested on only open explorer window...

$hwnd = WinActivate("[Class:CabinetWClass]", "")

$val = ControlGetText($hwnd, "", "[X:72; Y:5; W:914; H:22]") ; does not work

;$val = ControlGetText($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:ToolbarWindow32; INSTANCE:2]") ; works

ConsoleWrite($val & @LF & @error & @LF)

 

[water]

Did you check that $hWnd is a handle by using IsHWnd?

Edited June 29, 2015 by water

[JohnOne]

Yes, it works if I use class and instance, but not coords.