Sending commands through ControlSend

[Zives]

Hello guys,

So, i have this routine that reads a single uppercase letter "A", and uses the ControlSend command to send it to a specific program but, sometimes it ends up sending the lowercase letter "a" (some kind of weird bug, if i test it on the notepad, it will work correctly). So i created this another routine to turn around this:

#include <Misc.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <String.au3>
            
     Local  $sString1 = A
            $aArray2 = StringToASCIIArray($sString1)                            
            $sString2 = _ArrayToString($aArray2)                    
            $sString3 = _StringInsert($sString2, "{NUMPAD", 0)      
            $sString3 = _StringInsert($sString3, "},{NUMPAD", 8)
            $sString3 = _StringInsert($sString3, "}", 18)
            $aArray3 = StringSplit($sString3,",", 2)                
            _ArrayDisplay($aArray3)
            $sString2 = _ArrayToString($aArray3[0])
            $sString3 = _ArrayToString($aArray3[1])
            ControlSend($window, "", "", "{ALTDOWN}")
            ControlSend($window, "", "", $sString2)
            ControlSend($window, "", "", $sString3)
            ControlSend($window, "", "", "{ALTUP}")
            
            ;ConsoleWrite($sString2)

The "_ArrayDisplay($aArray3)" line brings me the wanted structure just for a check (2 rows each one with "NUMPAD6" and "NUMPAD5", the ASCII code for the uppercase "A") BUT, the ControlSend ends up sending " -1 " (this is what i get if a remove the semicolon from the consolewrite line ) instead of the "NUMPAD" elements that were saved in $sString2 and $sString3 and then, the ALT+65 intended comand to send the letter "A" doesn't works.

After some wondering, i found out that the {NUMPAD} comands have to be sent inside quotation marks like this "{NUMPAD}", but as they are inside a variable, i don't know to proceed. ( if i put the "" around the $sString, it will be sent as a text: $sString)

Does someone have any idea on how to turn around this?

Am i lacking expertise on how to build the ControSend Structure? (Im newbie on programming and sry for my english)
            

[genius257]

try one of these:

• "+a"
• "{ASC 065}"
• "{ALTDOWN}{NUMPAD6}{NUMPAD5}{ALTUP}"

By the way the "$sString1" definition in your example is either missing single/double-quotes, or you're referring to a function named A, not included in your code

[Zives]

On 21/12/2016 at 3:04 AM, genius257 said:

try one of these:

• "+a"
• "{ASC 065}"
• "{ALTDOWN}{NUMPAD6}{NUMPAD5}{ALTUP}"

By the way the "$sString1" definition in your example is either missing single/double-quotes, or you're referring to a function named A, not included in your code

Actually The "$sString1" is just a variable/string that contains only the letter "A".

I know these input methods that you are talking about, but the main problem here is that the "A" is being transformed  into {NUMPAD6} and {NUMPAD5} and is being put inside another variables "$sString2" and "$sString3" and im not being able to send these elements {NUMPAD6} {NUMPAD5} that are inside these variables i.e.:

ControlSend($window, "", "", "{ALTDOWN} $sString2 $sString3 {ALTUP}")

$sString2 contains {NUMPAD6} as a text

$sString3 contains {NUMPAD5} as a text

But i can't put this to work...

[genius257]

4 minutes ago, Zives said:

Actually The "$sString1" is just a variable/string that contains only the letter "A".

No not in your provided example:

On 21/12/2016 at 2:26 AM, Zives said:

 Local  $sString1 = A

To be a string, ti should be:

Local  $sString1 = "A"

 

6 minutes ago, Zives said:

inside these variables i.e.:

ControlSend($window, "", "", "{ALTDOWN} $sString2 $sString3 {ALTUP}")

$sString2 contains {NUMPAD6} as a text

$sString3 contains {NUMPAD5} as a text

But i can't put this to work...

It seems you want AutoIt to apple varaible values within double quoted string, like PHP?

As far as i know AutoIt does not offer that kind of functionallity.

So basically this shows what i mean:

$a = "test"
$b = "this is a $a"
MsgBox(0, "", $b);does not work as intended

you could do it like this:

ControlSend($window, "", "", "{ALTDOWN} "&$sString2&" "&$sString3&" {ALTUP}")

But if you wish to implement functionality, not provided naively by AutoIt, you would need to do something like StringRegExpReplaceCallback with a pattern like "[$][a-zA-Z_]+" and implement a function as the callback with the functionality to use Eval  to get the actual value and return it.