Winhandles

[Buckw1]

How do you get the handles of 2 game screens?

Case in point being 2 instances of Eve Online running on same PC (dual screens). Both windows have same title,"EVE". A quick test of the wingethandle function returns the numeric number for 1 client only. My objective is to control both clients with a AutoIt script. Ideas?

[Valuater]

maybe...

Run("Notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("")
$win1 = WinGetHandle("")


Run("Notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("")
$win2 = WinGetHandle("")


MsgBox(0, "Notepad handle test", $win1 & @CRLF & $win2, 5)

WinClose($win1)
sleep(2000)
WinClose($win2)

8)

[Buckw1]

maybe...

Run("Notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("")
$win1 = WinGetHandle("")
Run("Notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("")
$win2 = WinGetHandle("")
MsgBox(0, "Notepad handle test", $win1 & @CRLF & $win2, 5)

WinClose($win1)
sleep(2000)
WinClose($win2)

8)

Nice idea, get the handles at startup rather than after....will try it when I get home.

Thanks!

[exodius]

Failing that, you could always change their titles with WinSetTitle to be something different from each other.

[SmOke_N]

maybe...

Run("Notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("")
$win1 = WinGetHandle("")
Run("Notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("")
$win2 = WinGetHandle("")
MsgBox(0, "Notepad handle test", $win1 & @CRLF & $win2, 5)

WinClose($win1)
sleep(2000)
WinClose($win2)

8)

Providing the speed of the PC, couldn't you very well get an active window that isn't from the process you just ran from the above code?

Val... didn't I/you/we/someone make a udf that's in your wrappers to get the exe's windows or handles specifically?

[Helge]

Failing that, you could always change their titles with WinSetTitle to be something

different from each other.

How would that have worked ? If you can't get the handle of the wanted window

like Valuater suggested then WinSetTitle wouldn't be able to magically figure out

what window to change the title of either.

Anyway..You could try to download http://www.autoitscript.com/fileman/users/Helge/udfs/_ProcessGetHWnd.au3, and do something like this :

$pid1 = Run($gamefile)
Sleep(3000) ; wait for window to exist

$hwnd1 = _ProcessGetHWnd($pid, 1, $gametitle)oÝ÷ ÚØb²0z÷«É®r޶׫jëh×6$pid1 = Run($gamefile)
$hwnd1 = 0

For $i = 1 To 10 ; times out after 10 * 500 = 5sec
    $hwnd1 = _ProcessGetHWnd($pid, 1, $gametitle)
    If @error Then ExitLoop
    
    Sleep(500)
Next

If $hwnd1 = 0 Then MsgBox(16, "Error", "Failed to get HWND..")

[SmOke_N]

Exactly what I had in mind Helge.

[Buckw1]

Still the same requirement of starting up one instance at a time then grabbing the handle, correct?

[SmOke_N]

Still the same requirement of starting up one instance at a time then grabbing the handle, correct?

If you want to be specific, that's how I'd do it, otherwise you would just get every window for every instance of the .exe.

[exodius]

How would that have worked ? If you can't get the handle of the wanted window

like Valuater suggested then WinSetTitle wouldn't be able to magically figure out

what window to change the title of either.

Start up the first instance window, whose name you already know, and change it to something. Now start up the second window and do the same.