NotePad has gone Bonkers!

[Lakes]

Run("notepad.exe")

ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "This is a line of text in the notepad window")

Exit

Can someone tell me why all of a sudden, this simple most basic script, only sends text to a previous notepad window and not one the script opens???

This is Nuts!!

[Jos]

Run("notepad.exe")

ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "This is a line of text in the notepad window")

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Sleep(500)
ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "This is a line of text in the notepad window")

Exit

[smstroble]

it may be doing the control send faster than notepad can start. try putting a sleep(700) or something like that in there.

EDIT: Bah JdeB beat me by a second or 2

Edited November 2, 2006 by smstroble

[Lakes]

slow down geronimo... literally...

Run("notepad.exe")
WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")
ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "This is a line of text in the notepad window")

Exit

Thanks Guys, sometimes the obvious tends to be elusive..

[SmOke_N]

Thanks Guys, sometimes the obvious tends to be elusive..

May even want to take it a step further in case you currently have an Untitled notepad window open

$iPID = Run("notepad.exe")
ProcessWait($iPID)
WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")
ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "This is a line of text in the notepad window")

[Blue_Drache]

May even want to take it a step further in case you currently have an Untitled notepad window open

$iPID = Run("notepad.exe")
ProcessWait($iPID)
WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")
ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "", "Edit1", "This is a line of text in the notepad window")

As written, your code: ProcessWait($iPID) will fail.

Remarks

Process names are executables without the full path, e.g., "notepad.exe" or "winword.exe"

In order to work under Windows NT 4.0, ProcessWait requires the file PSAPI.DLL (included in the AutoIt installation directory).

The process is polled approximately every 250 milliseconds.

This function is the only process function not to accept a PID. Because PIDs are allocated randomly, waiting for a particular PID to exist doesn't make sense.

Edited November 2, 2006 by Blue_Drache