Control another gui

[kudrow]

Hello,

I am trying to automate an installer by sending commands (enter, left arrow etc) and the simple send script does not work. I have tried setting a sleep for 5 seconds so that I could manually activate the window before the send command is processed and it still does not work. I have also tried WinActivate with no luck as well. Not sure what else to try.

 

Thanks for any help!

Edited March 9, 2017 by kudrow

[JLogan3o13]

@kudrow it is a little difficult to help with such a vague explanation. How about a screenshot of the installer window? Is it an InstallShield installation? You may not need to automate the GUI at all. What do you get when you over over the buttons/controls with the Autoit Window Info Tool (in the same directory where you installed AutoIt)? The answers to these questions will help us help you

 

[kudrow]

@JLogan3o13, sorry for being vague. It is not an installshield installation. Please let me know what else I can provide to help. Thank you for trying to help me.

Edited March 9, 2017 by kudrow

[JLogan3o13]

So have you tried ControlClick (check out the good example in the help file) on that button? I see you stated Send doesn't work, but the Control* commands are usually more reliable.

[kudrow]

@JLogan3o13, I am not sure I am doing it right.. This is what I have.

 

RunWait(@COMSPEC & " /c Start c:\climax\climaxsetup.exe")
Sleep(2000)
$win = WinActive("[Title:Welcome]")
ControlClick($win, "", "1017")

Also tried 

RunWait(@COMSPEC & " /c Start c:\climax\climaxsetup.exe")
Sleep(2000)
$win = WinActive("[Title:Welcome]")
ControlClick($win, "", "1017","",1)

I bet I am missing something.

It does not work with above example.

Thanks!

[JLogan3o13]

Try something like this:

ControlClick("Welcome", "", "Button1")

 

[kudrow]

@JLogan3o13

Still not getting anything. I will keep trying different things

 

[JLogan3o13]

@kudrow are you able to share what the product is? Don't particularly want to Google "Climax"

[kudrow]

@JLogan3o13 it is custom software for a client of mine. They use it for importing and exporting. The issue I am trying to resolve is that there are 3 exe files that need to be ran in order and I am just trying to automate it. Thanks again!

[kudrow]

@JLogan3o13 one thing I failed to mention is that there is a bigger window behind the smaller one. Not sure if that is useful information or not. See attached.

[kudrow]

Getting a little closer.

I can read text from these boxes with the below code but I cannot set the text with _GUICtrlEDit_SetText

$winname= "User Information"
$sControlIdentifier= 1039
$hControl = ControlGetHandle($winname,"",$sControlIdentifier)
$first=_GUICtrlEdit_GetText($hControl)

MsgBox("0","test",$first)

 

Edited March 10, 2017 by kudrow

[kudrow]

@JLogan3o13 sorry to bug you, quick question. I can't even get a Mousemove command to work while this installer is active, any idea why?

 

Thanks!

[JLogan3o13]

Can you define "not working"? Does the mouse not move to where you expect, or is it not moving at all? It sounds as though you have a blocking function (WinWaitActive, perhaps) stepping on it.

[kudrow]

It does not move at all while the installer is active. I can alt+tab out of it and the mouse will move as expected. Does that make sense?

 

[kudrow]

So my new plan to automate this installer was to control the on screen keyboard with mouse moves and clicks. I tested that it works when I manually move the mouse and click letters. Then when I try to use autoit to do it, it does absolutely nothing. I can test my autoit script on anything else and it works.