_GUICtrlListView_ClickItem won't click some items

[Wadams]

Autoit newbie here. 

I'm trying to use Autoit to automate an action in VMWare's Vsphere client.  I've got about 1/2 of it working but am running into a problem trying to click on an item in a ListView.  I've detected the window, found the listview, even found the item that I want to click, but when I use _GUICtrlListView_ClickItem to click it, the mouse moves to the item, but it does not get selected.   I did some testing and wrote a loop to select every item, one at a time, in the list.  The mouse moves to every item, but only 7 of the 10 rows/items can be selected (by AutoIT).  The other 3, including the one I want, won't select.   All of the items are selectable if I manually use the mouse.  I've tried changing the number of clicks and the delay, but nothing seems to work.
 

Here's my test code:

 

#include <GuiConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiTreeView.au3>
#include <GuiListView.au3>
Local $hWnd1, $hWnd2, $hTV, $hLV, $hTMP, $sText


WinWaitActive("Add Hardware")
Local $hWnd3 = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.ef627a; TITLE:Add Hardware]", "")
If @error Then
   MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "An error occurred when trying to retrieve the window handle of Add Hardware")
   Exit
 EndIf
$hLV = ControlGetHandle($hWnd3, "", "[CLASS:WindowsForms10.SysListView32.app.0.ef627a; INSTANCE:1]")
If @error Then
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "An error occurred when trying to retrieve the window handle of Hardware device syslist.")
    Exit
 EndIf

$hTMP = _GUICtrlListView_FindInText($hLV, "USB Device")

If $hTMP Then
   For $i = 0 to _GUICtrlListView_GetItemCount($hLV)-1
      _GUICtrlListView_ClickItem($hLV, $i, "left", True, 1,20)
   Next

  ;_GUICtrlListView_ClickItem($hLV, 7, "left", True, 2)
  ;_GUICtrlListView_ClickItem($hLV, $hTMP, "left", True, 20)
 Else
   ConsoleWrite("'USB Device' item not found")
   Exit
 EndIf

 

And I've attached an image of  the window I'm working with.

 

It will select every item except, "CD/DVD Drive", "USB Device" (which is the one I want to select), and "Hard Disk".

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

Wayne

[JLogan3o13]

Just out of curiosity, have you looked at the PowerCLI scripts? The scripts (which can all be called from an AutoIt script) can natively add pretty much any device you want to the VM with one or two lines. Much easier than trying to manipulate the GUI of a desktop client that is soon to be discontinued.

[Wadams]

I would love to (and I've tried), but I'm using the free version of ESXi, and the powercli stuff to add/remove USB devices is only available with the paid version.

[Subz]

Try:

ControlSend($hWnd3, '', $hLV, 'c') ;~ Select CD Rom
ControlSend($hWnd3, '', $hLV, 'u') ;~ Select USB Drive
ControlSend($hWnd3, '', $hLV, 'h') ;~ Select Hard Disk

 

Edited March 19, 2017 by Subz

[JLogan3o13]

@Wadams I tried your code out, and it selected only those items where the text was long enough to fall under the mouse cursor. Is this what you're experiencing?

 

 

Edited February 10, 2017 by JLogan3o13

[Wadams]

@JLogan3o13 Yeah, looking at it, I didn't catch the string length correlation.  Though, is it correlation or coincidence?

@Subz Thanks!  I didn't know that about GuiCtrl functions.

 

I replaced the 2nd half of the script with the following and it seems to work!

Local $hLV_ItemIdx = ControlListView($hLV, "", "", "FindItem", "USB Device")


If $hLV_ItemIdx = -1 Then
   ConsoleWrite("Could not find string USB Device in LV" & @CRLF)
   Exit
EndIf

ControlListView($hLV, "", "", "Select", $hLV_ItemIdx)