Cannot send any input, keys, control click, etc.

[iam5]

I have a goofy problem I can't seem to figure out. I'm using a data recovery program called "Disk Genius" to recover data of a large hard drive. I'm scanning for partitions and this program is really annoying because once it finds one the scan will stop and it asks if I want to save the partition info or not. Well scanning a 14tb drive with TONS of partitions it's found, make it impossible to scan this things since it stops every 45 seconds. So, I was writing a script just to click buttons for me.

For some reason, when I try to send ANY input while this window is active, nothing will work.

Even if I write a script thats 4 lines, While 1 MouseClick($LeftButtonClick) Sleep(500) WEnd my button will click where ever the pointer is, but the second I bring the Disk Genius window to the front, all input is ignored. On the Disk Genius window, and if I even try to just click a window behind it, nope, ignored. Minimize it, then it clicks all over.

I've tried MouseClick, ControlClick, MouseDown, keyboard instead of mouse sendkey("{tab}") everything is ignored. Tried Opt("MouseCoordMode", 2) Opt("MouseCoordMode", 0) using ControlID for the buttons, No ControlID, every single way you could go about sending input and everything is ignored.

100% out of ideas. Anyone ever run into something like this? As I said, I can just have a very basic 4 line script just clicking the mouse button with no regard to any windows, and the second this one comes to front of screen, all input is ignored.

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Edit: Here is my scratchpad

 

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;;Click "reserve" for Disk Genius
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPISys.au3>
#include <AutoItConstants.au3>
Opt("MouseCoordMode", 2)
Opt("MouseClickDownDelay", 30)

diskClick()

Func diskClick()
$i = 0
While 1
    $i = $i + 1
      Local $hWnd = WinWait("Partition Found", "")
        If WinExists($hWnd) Then
            ConsoleWrite("run: " & $i & " window found." & @CRLF)
            Sleep(1000)
                ;MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "Window exists")
                ConsoleWrite("Partion Found Window! " + @CRLF)
                Sleep(5000)
                ConsoleWrite("Activating Window." & @CRLF)
                WinActivate($hWnd)
                Sleep(5000)
                MouseMove(167, 254, 20)
                ConsoleWrite("Click!" & @CRLF)
                MouseDown($MOUSE_CLICK_LEFT) ; Set the left mouse button state as down.
                Sleep(100)
                MouseUp($MOUSE_CLICK_LEFT)
                ;ControlClick("Partition Found", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]", "left", 167, 254)
                ;MouseClick("left", 52, 614, 1)
                ;Send("{TAB}")
                 ;_WinAPI_Keybd_Event(0x09, $KEYEVENTF_KEYUP)
                ConsoleWrite("sleep start." & @CRLF)
                Sleep(5000)
                ConsoleWrite("sleep end." & @CRLF)
                ;Send("{ENTER}")
                 ;_WinAPI_Keybd_Event(0x20, $KEYEVENTF_KEYUP)
                ;Sleep(1000)
                MsgBox(0, "break", "break")

        Else
                ConsoleWrite("waiting..." & @CRLF)
                MsgBox(0, "break", "break")
        EndIf

WEnd

EndFunc

 

Edited July 17, 2023 by iam5

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