catch a boutton click

[cornholio]

Hello, i'm new to this language. I've searched in the help chm for a way to change what happens when user clicks a button...i woould need some help plz..is it is possible

[lekremyelsew]

In the help file there is a section under AutoIt called "GUI Reference"

There are 2 ways to detect when a button is pressed, one is OnEvent mode and the other is MessageLoop mode,

Look at them both and decide which one you want to use

[cornholio]

Thanks. I've read the examples from gui reference; good to know. What i want to do: being given a window not from a gui I made), I want to have my program in the background and, when a user click a specific button in that window, my program to show a message box(par example).

I don't know how to react to an event from an outside window. I can though get the position of the button i want to catch and use some mouse events when the user clicks in that area, but i didn't find the events on mouse click, just functions to perform clicks and other mouse operations.

[lekremyelsew]

If you want to do OnEvent Mode (I prefer it)

At the begging of the script write a line of code: Opt("GUIOnEventMode",1) to set the mode to OnEvent

After creating the control have a line of code: GUIControlSetOnEvent($button,"Function") to set the Event to the control

Then define the function

Func Function()
     MsgBox(0,"Title","Text")
EndFunc

[SmOke_N]

WinExists() + WinActive() + ControlGetFocus() + _IsPressed()

[cornholio]

If you want to do OnEvent Mode (I prefer it)

At the begging of the script write a line of code: Opt("GUIOnEventMode",1) to set the mode to OnEvent

After creating the control have a line of code: GUIControlSetOnEvent($button,"Function") to set the Event to the control

Then define the function

Func Function()
     MsgBox(0,"Title","Text")
EndFunc

I did not create the control, and $button shoul be the controlID as returned by the fucntion GUICtrlCreate(..)..