Spy doesn't see splash windows?

[emmanuel]

I couldn't remember what the control of the spash window is, to use ControlSetText with, so I figured I'd just spy on it. No dice. the spy just shows the info of the window below it. I don't get it.

while 1
   SplashTextOn("test", "what control am I?") 
   sleep(25*1000)
Wend

if I put the mouse over the title bar, it shows the control being "AutoIt v31" with the text being "test" but when I put the mouse over the text of the splash window, it just shows whatever is behind the window...

Edit; an aside:

Even better is to use ControlSetText to update text without flicker...

if that's prefered, wouldn't it be great to have an example of that in the helpfile, either for ControlSetText or SplashTextOn? Edited July 2, 2004 by emmanuel

[Jos]

This is the controlname:

ControlSetText("Title,","","Static1","TEXT")

[emmanuel]

shouldn't that kind of info be in the helpfile for the splashes, and probably any other gui elements in autoit? who updates the helpfile?

[Jos]

Example

SplashTextOn("Title", "Message goes here.", -1, -1, -1, -1, 4, "", 24)

Sleep(3000)

SplashOff()

;; FLICKER

$message = ""

SplashTextOn("TitleFoo", $message, -1, -1, -1, -1, 4, "")

For $x = 1 to 20

    $message = $message & $x & @LF

    SplashTextOn("TitleFoo", $message, -1, -1, -1, -1, 4, "")

    Sleep(100)

Next

;; SMOOTH

$message = ""

SplashTextOn("TitleFoo", $message, -1, -1, -1, -1, 4, "")

For $x = 1 to 20

    $message = $message & $x & @LF

    ControlSetText("TitleFoo", "", "Static1", $message)

    sleep(100)

Next

[CyberSlug]

I wrote the example for the SplashTextOn docs.... it should have the following SMOOTH example

Edit: JdeB beat me to it

Edited July 2, 2004 by CyberSlug

[Jos]

couldn't say more than because of emmanuel's avatar

[emmanuel]

and so, I bow down before thee, elder gods of autoit.

It was right where I had the helpfile open to even.

[Jos]

and so, I bow down before thee, elder gods of autoit.

It was right where I had the helpfile open to even.

TGIF... must be that you worked too hard this week...