Know automation ID, but not control ID, how to go about automating a button click?

[Zein]

I've already read FAQ 31, I've tried all of junkew's examples and none of them work on my computer. Anytime I run any test script or even the spy application I get stuff like "redefining constant" or "using variable while undeclared". Dunno if running as admin affects it, but I'm not able to do that on this computer either way.

I just want to know the most straightforward way to automate a button click if I can find the automation ID of it.

I tried using jdelaney's spy tool and it didn't give me control info (as far as I can tell). Unless two separate buttons can have the same Control ID?

This is what the jdelaney's spy tool gives me if it's important.

Spoiler

Id: PrimaryButton
Text: System.Windows.Controls.Grid
Class: TButton
Native handle: 0
Bounding box: 838, 672, 120, 60

Id: PrimaryButton
Text: System.Windows.Controls.Grid
Class: TButton
Native handle: 0
Bounding box: 1006, 672, 120, 60

Two separate buttons.

 

[jdelaney]

What was the output of my script on your window?  controls can have the same id.

 

I'm going to upload a function tonight that effectively returns acollection of controls based on several criteria, such as enabled, visible, text, id, class

[Earthshine]

Lol. Junkew rules. They probably don’t work for you, with the examples that is, because he is looking for non English titles and I had to change to English before mine worked. 

One thing I’ve learned if @junkewsamples don’t work it’s usually my fault. Lol

Edited August 9, 2018 by Earthshine

[junkew]

Which windows version are you using? Simplespy or uiautomation in general works without admin rights all that can happen is certain values are not exposed. 

It seems to be a delphi app button which in general should be straight forward to click on. 

Did you use latest versions of autoit and simplespy?

[Zein]

On 8/9/2018 at 11:54 PM, junkew said:

Which windows version are you using? Simplespy or uiautomation in general works without admin rights all that can happen is certain values are not exposed. 

It seems to be a delphi app button which in general should be straight forward to click on. 

Did you use latest versions of autoit and simplespy?

Sorry for the late reply, I couldn't get spy to work at all on Windows 10. I turn off the Require Admin thing and the script just don't run. I found a workaround of course though, but it didnt fix any of the samples for me. 
 

On 8/9/2018 at 3:51 PM, Earthshine said:

Lol. Junkew rules. They probably don’t work for you, with the examples that is, because he is looking for non English titles and I had to change to English before mine worked. 

One thing I’ve learned if @junkewsamples don’t work it’s usually my fault. Lol

Oh, this might be it. I'll check.

Edited August 14, 2018 by Zein