Class wildcarding?

[Vhriz]

Hello Guys!

I have a very strange issue, I'm trying to make an automation for ZebraDesigner but I have ran into many issues

-It seems that it has some kind of window wrapper that doesn't report Control information to Au3info.

-Window Class is different in every instance, so WinActivate won't work when used in the way below

$winpos = WinGetPos("[CLASS:HwndWrapper[ZebraDesigner.exe]")

Is there any way I can reliably reference ZebraDesigner.exe?

[ioa747]

you can use REGEXPCLASS
look in help file for Window Titles and Text (Advanced)

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Edit:

$winpos = WinGetPos("[REGEXPCLASS:(?i)(.*ZebraDesigner.exe.*)")

 

Edited February 21, 2024 by ioa747

[Vhriz]

Thanks, the solution you provided worked, I'll look more deeply into REGEXPCLASS, the syntax is not too clear for me. For example why does (?i) needed?

[Musashi]

9 minutes ago, Vhriz said:

why does (?i) needed?

Take a look at the help for https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm 

(?i)	Caseless: matching becomes case-insensitive from that point on. By default, matching is case-sensitive. When UCP is enabled casing applies to the entire Unicode plane 0, else applies by default to ASCII letters A-Z and a-z only.

[ioa747]

Extra info

RegExpQuickTester 2.5p  will help

as well https://regex101.com/r/PmDhcj/1

 

[SmOke_N]

8 hours ago, ioa747 said:

as well https://regex101.com/r/PmDhcj/1

 

I really like that site, after not using PCRE engine in so long, it quickly got me back into the abstruse way of thinking again.

Edit:

Thanks for the link to the RegExpQuickTester, that looks promising too!

Edited February 21, 2024 by SmOke_N

[Andreik]

@SmOke_N the best part about this site it's the debugger. Have you tried it?

[SmOke_N]

59 minutes ago, Andreik said:

@SmOke_N the best part about this site it's the debugger. Have you tried it?

Nope, never noticed it, but I just played with it, saved a bunch of cycles with an edit for same match... that's going to truly come in handy... Thanks!