Ways of handling unrecognized controls

[maci]

Hello,

I'm all new to Autoit and GUI testautomation so this question might be a little awkward.

I want to automate regression tests using Robot Framework with its AutoIt library.

I'm using Autoit v3 Window Info tool to recognize control properties so I can use the controls in my test cases. The goal is to adress the controls by their properties / avoid adressing them by their position on the window/panel/etc. Unfortunately the tool can't seem to identify all of the given controls on the GUI so my questions are

• is there another tool that can?
• if controls aren't recognized does that mean that they technically can't be adressed by their properties in AutoIt
  • if so are there any other ways to adress them (ways that are more stable than adress via position)

Thanks in advance!

[junkew]

See faq 31 iuiautomation and see faq 40 on test automation