Get AutoItSetOption value

[fchelp]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the value of

WinTitleMatchMode

so i checked the help file, and it says  "If the param is not provided, then the function just returns the value already assigned to the option."

So i'm running this line in SciTE

AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" )

And am checking the output, but the only output i'm getting is 

Quote

+>13:15:42 AutoIt3.exe ended.rc:0
+>13:15:42 AutoIt3Wrapper Finished.
>Exit code: 0    Time: 0.9874

What am i doing wrong?

I'm trying to set it that it should do exact match on titles, but i want to see first what is the current setting.

Thanks in advance!

Edited February 13, 2018 by fchelp

[Jos]

2 minutes ago, fchelp said:

What am i doing wrong?

What were you expecting as that statement will return the current value but you aren't doing anything with it.
In case you were expecting a Console message you need to tell the script to do so like:

ConsoleWrite('AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) = ' & AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) & @CRLF )

Jos

[fchelp]

2 minutes ago, Jos said:

What were you expecting as that statement will return the current value but you aren't doing anything with it.
In case you were expecting a Console message you need to tell the script to do so like:

ConsoleWrite('AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) = ' & AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) & @CRLF )

Jos

Thanks!

 

But could you please explain the code you wrote? i'm trying to learn, and i'm wondering why doesn't this work? (i tested it)

ConsoleWrite('AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" )' & @CRLF )

 

[Jos]

Because you are telling AutoIt3 to write that exact literal string: 'AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" )' ... not to perform the function.
Just try understanding the scriptline I wrote.

Jos

[fchelp]

9 minutes ago, Jos said:

Because you are telling AutoIt3 to write that exact literal string: 'AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" )' ... not to perform the function.
Just try understanding the scriptline I wrote.

Jos

Got you halfway.
I was able to get the data like this

$ttest = AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" )
ConsoleWrite($ttest & @CRLF )

But i still don't understand how your script line works.

Is there a help file i could read that explains how to output the result of a commend in Consolewrite without setting it first as a variable? (as it seems this is what you did, i just don't understand how it works)

NVM disregard that, i figured that out, it's 

ConsoleWrite( AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) & @CRLF )

Now why did you need to make that long line of code?

 

Thanks so much for your patience!

Edited February 13, 2018 by fchelp

[Jos]

ConsoleWrite('this part is just text also called literal string = ' & AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) & @CRLF )

So that line simply concatenates a String with the result of the function: AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) and concatenates a CRLF at the end.

Jos

[fchelp]

4 minutes ago, Jos said:

ConsoleWrite('this part is just text also called literal string = ' & AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) & @CRLF )

So that line simply concatenates a String with the result of the function: AutoItSetOption( "WinTitleMatchMode" ) and concatenates a CRLF at the end.

Jos

Thanks! i got it in the same second you wrote it