Calling WinList from Powershell

[JC_Aus]

I have had great success using the AutoIT Powershell cmdlets, 

However I am stuck trying to get a comprehensive list of Window handles (as provided by AutoIt "WinList" command).

I have resorted to a cludge of calling an AutoIt script to run the command and put results in a file and then reading the file in powershell.

Can someone point me to an explanation of how to do this better?

[careca]

Yes, do it all in autoit.

Why use powershell anyway?

[iamtheky]

can always resort to executeline

.\AutoIt3.exe /AutoIt3ExecuteLine "msgbox(0 , '' , winlist('AutoIt v3')[1][0] & ' | ' & winlist('AutoIt v3')[1][1])"

[JLogan3o13]

11 hours ago, careca said:

Yes, do it all in autoit.

Why use powershell anyway?

There is a reason Jon decided to create a PowerShell sub forum.

@JC_Aus while I agree that AutoIt makes this task easier, if you have a requirement to do it in PS you could do something like this:

Get-Process | 
    Where-Object {$_.MainWindowTitle -like "*notepad*"} | 
        Select MainWindowTitle, MainWindowHandle |
            Out-GridView

If you're looking to capture more like all open windows, you can modify it slightly:

Get-Process |
    Where-Object {$_.MainWindowTitle -ne ""} |
        Select MainWindowTitle, MainWindowHandle |
            Out-GridView

 

[JC_Aus]

Thanks all for your comments/suggestions.

I had originally gone down the 'Get-Process' path, but it does not display all child windows (eg Outlook can have multiple windows open). Winlist does display them all.

My final solution was to use ComObject, it had to run as 32 bit, but otherwise no issue 

    $AU3 = New-object -ComObject "AutoItX3.Control"   # Must run as 32 bit
    $array1 = @()
    $list = $AU3.winlist("[ALL]")
    for ($i = 1;$i -lt $($list.GetUpperBound(1));$i++)
    {
      $title = $list[0,$i]
      if ($title -ne ""  )
        {
          $array1+=($title)
        }    
    }