ControlClick unrealiable when used over RDP?

[LoWang]

Hello, I made myself a little GUI script with an EditBox and a button and I use it quite frequently. To avoid having to look for the window and click into it I also made a command line utility (called rdp.exe) which upon launch does

ControlSetText("RDPconnect","","Edit1",$cmdline[1])
ControlClick("RDPconnect","","Button1")

The GUI program window title is RDPConnect. I am connected via RDP to some server and connect via another RDP to other servers. My idea is to save a few seconds and mouse work when I am in command line so I type rdp hostname and it fills it into this GUI and clicks Button1. The problem is, that sometimes it does not work, sometimes it does... It looks like the Edit1 is always filled successfully, but the button quite often does not get clicked or receives focus but not the actual click (I can see the dotted rectangle around it). Interesting thing is that it can be like twice not working and for the third time it suddenly works. I guess I should add sleep() before ControlClick, but 200ms seems to be not enough. Anybody has experience with this? It seems that send() also has problems when ran locally on a remote server via RDP and sometimes does not send all chars.

Edited August 17, 2015 by LoWang

[BrewManNH]

Is this an AutoIt GUI? If so, don't use Control* commands to work with it, use the internal commands to do it, GUICtrlSetData, GUICtrlRead, etc.

[LoWang]

allright, how do I use GUICtrlSetData to change GUICtrl in another process?

[junkew]

Keep using the Control* Commands. Add some https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/ControlFocus.htm and some timeouts. Most likely the text you enter is to quick so control is not getting enabled.

so flow would be

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

2. Set focus to textbox

3. Set SendKeyDelay

4. use send instead of controlsettext

5. Click the button (maybe even first setfocusto the button)

slow down typing shows you initially if the concept will work

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/AutoItSetOption.htm#SendKeyDelay

[LoWang]

Thanks, but as I said. ControlSetText seems to work every time. The only problem is the controlclick. I just wonder what is the minumum sleep() pause or controlfocus or whatever to use to make a reliable script :-\ It is quite flakey

Edited August 17, 2015 by LoWang