Quick question about CommandSend() with combo.

[rbhkamal]

If a combo box has Item1="<>" and Item2="<" and I use ControlCommand(.,.,.,"SelectString" , "<") to select Item2, ControlCommand selects Item1 instead .....

How can I go around that?

Here is my code:

$SELECT_STRING = "<"

$hwnd  = GUICreate( "testing" , 200 , 150 )
$combo = GUICtrlCreateCombo( "" , 20 , 20 , 100 , 200 )
GUICtrlSetData( -1 , "none|=|<>|<|>|regex" , "none" )

GUISetState()
$first = True
While( GUIGetMsg() <> -3 )
    If $first Then
        ControlCommand( $hwnd , "" , $combo , "SelectString" , $SELECT_STRING )
        If @error Then
            ConsoleWrite( "-- ControlCommand() failed   >Error: " & @error & @CRLF )
        Else
            ConsoleWrite( "ControlCommand() successful" & @CRLF )
        EndIf
        $first = False
    EndIf
WEnd

Note:

I can't change the GUI....

Thanks,

RK

Edited March 7, 2007 by rbhkamal

[tAKTelapis]

the SelectString option is obviously using some kind of regular expression..

in your case, the first instance of < that it is finding, is the <>, and so it is assuming that is the correct answer..

it isn't finding a literal string, it is finding any occurence of THAT string

to see what i mean, try this:

GUICtrlSetData( -1 , "none|=|<|<>|>|regex" , "none" )

i have moved the < to be before the <> , the ControlCommand will select this as it is the first occurrence in the combo box

[rbhkamal]

the SelectString option is obviously using some kind of regular expression..

in your case, the first instance of < that it is finding, is the <>, and so it is assuming that is the correct answer..

it isn't finding a literal string, it is finding any occurence of THAT string

to see what i mean, try this:

GUICtrlSetData( -1 , "none|=|<|<>|>|regex" , "none" )

i have moved the < to be before the <> , the ControlCommand will select this as it is the first occurrence in the combo box

Thanks, but do you know how to go around this without changing the GUI?

Regards,

RK

[rbhkamal]

Found it!

$SELECT_STRING = "<"

$hwnd  = GUICreate( "testing" , 200 , 150 )
$combo = GUICtrlCreateCombo( "" , 20 , 20 , 100 , 200 )
GUICtrlSetData( -1 , "none|=|<>|<|>|regex" , "none" )
$comboHwnd = ControlGetHandle( $hwnd , "" , $combo )

GUISetState()
$first = True
While( GUIGetMsg() <> -3 )
    If $first Then
        ;$ret = ControlCommand( $hwnd , "" , $combo , "SETCURSEL" , $SELECT_STRING )
        $index = DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "SendMessage", "hwnd", $comboHwnd, "int", 0x158 , "int", 0 , "str", $SELECT_STRING  )
        $ret   = DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "SendMessage", "hwnd", $comboHwnd, "int", 0x14E , "int", $index[0] , "int", 0 )
        If @error Then
            ConsoleWrite( "-- ControlCommand() failed   >Error: " & @error & @CRLF )
        Else
            ConsoleWrite( "ControlCommand() successful , return: "&$ret[0] & @CRLF )
        EndIf
        $first = False
    EndIf
WEnd

Regards,

RK