Need help in copying a value from a field on a window's screen

[Arun-Emmanuel]

Hello people,

I am new to AutoIT and need your help in copying a value from a field on Pronto's screen (Order No.) to a clip board so that I can reuse this value in the next screen. I also need to display the copied value for debugging purpose. 

Problem statement: Need to copy Order No. from Full Order Entry screen and reuse this Order No. in the Despatch screen by pasting the copied value. Order No. is an autogenerated value which gets generated as soon as I tab off from Cust. Ref field and the focus sets on Sales Person field.

 

 

[argumentum]

have you tried Au3Info.exe over the control ? 

[Arun-Emmanuel]

Yes, I tried to use Au3Info.exe and I can see the following info. Do I need to use ControlClick to click on the Order No field and then use Send("{CTRLDOWN}c{CTRLUP}") or Send("^c")?

 

 

 

Edited March 12, 2024 by Arun-Emmanuel

[SmOke_N]

ControlGetText("[CLASS:PRONTO Application]", "", "Edit5")

 

[Arun-Emmanuel]

Thanks @SmOke_N, it worked as I was able to capture and print it on a message box (as a part of debugging). However, unable to copy this value to the clipboard so that I can reuse this value on the other screen by Send("^v"). 

[SmOke_N]

14 minutes ago, Arun-Emmanuel said:

However, unable to copy this value to the clipboard so that I can reuse this value on the other screen by Send("^v"). 

Did you by any slim chance look at the clipboard functions in the help file?

ClipPut(ControlGetText(etc...))

maybe?

[Arun-Emmanuel]

Hi @SmOke_N, Yes I tried a similar one and thanks for your help.

Local $sText = ControlGetText("[CLASS:PRONTO Application]", "", "Edit5")
    ClipPut($sText)

[SmOke_N]

And when you paste it in notepad you get nothing?  

If you're trying to paste it into another edit box or input box, and it's not showing, it may be due to leading vertical spaces.

If you can paste it in notepad, and it shows... you should be able to tell.  If there are leading or trailing white spaces, you may try

ClipPut(StringStripWS(ControlGetText(...), 3))

 

Edited March 12, 2024 by SmOke_N

[argumentum]

Do the StringStripWS(). 
ClipPut() returns 0 if failed.
You can also try _ClipBoard_SetData().

Else, see if you have protection software that impede automated copy'n'paste

[Arun-Emmanuel]

All good, my script works, thanks @argumentum @SmOke_N.

Now, I have a single large script which creates a sales order  and dispatches a sales order. This script currently runs only ones per user. My intention now is to create a load by running this script in multiple sessions (concurrent/parallelly) to simulate multiple users trying to access Pronto create sales order at a time. 

Edited March 14, 2024 by Arun-Emmanuel

[Arun-Emmanuel]

Hello people,

My next query is regarding multi threading. Does AutoIt support multi threading meaning can I run a same script parallelly without interrupting each others?

 

[argumentum]

look in https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/profile/4574-argumentum/?tab=field_core_pfield_11 for "fork". Try that.

[SmOke_N]

9 minutes ago, argumentum said:

look in https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/profile/4574-argumentum/?tab=field_core_pfield_11 for "fork". Try that.

You need your own helpfile 😂