Can you send stuff to minimized programs with Hwnd?

[Zamp]

Earlier I was playing around with the Hwnd thing, and found out you can use it to send stuff to notepad as long as it's the active window. This is what I used to make it do that:

Func _p()
    $p = Not $p
    While $p
        Run("notepad.exe")
        WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")
        Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad")
        Local $sHWND = String($hWnd)   ; Convert to a string
        ControlSend(HWnd($HWND), "", HWnd($HWND), "blah")
        Send("p")
    WEnd
EndFunc

So that made it open notepad and type blah in it. After I got it to do that I made it so it would minimize notepad then do controlsend, but it didn't work. So is there a way to make it send stuff to minimized programs? I know there is an easier way to do this then what I'm trying to do, but I just want to know if it's possible or not.

[martin]

Earlier I was playing around with the Hwnd thing, and found out you can use it to send stuff to notepad as long as it's the active window. This is what I used to make it do that:

Func _p()
    $p = Not $p
    While $p
        Run("notepad.exe")
        WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")
        Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad")
        Local $sHWND = String($hWnd)  ; Convert to a string
        ControlSend(HWnd($HWND), "", HWnd($HWND), "blah")
        Send("p")
    WEnd
EndFunc

So that made it open notepad and type blah in it. After I got it to do that I made it so it would minimize notepad then do controlsend, but it didn't work. So is there a way to make it send stuff to minimized programs? I know there is an easier way to do this then what I'm trying to do, but I just want to know if it's possible or not.

You can send to minimized applications. Try this

Run("notepad.exe")
        WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")
    ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "","Edit1", "first line sent while window visible" & @CR)
    WinSetState("Untitled - Notepad",'',@SW_MINIMIZE)
    sleep(2000);
        ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", "","Edit1", "Second line sent while minimised" & @CR)
    sleep(500)
        WinSetState("Untitled - Notepad",'',@SW_MAXIMIZE)

[Zamp]

I know you can do it like that, but is there a way to do it using Hwnd? I'm not really trying to make anything right now, I just want to know this just for the fun of it

[martin]

I know you can do it like that, but is there a way to do it using Hwnd? I'm not really trying to make anything right now, I just want to know this just for the fun of it

It's the same thing -

Run("notepad.exe")
    WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")
    $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Untitled - Notepad")
    ControlSend($hWnd, "","Edit1", "first line sent while window visible" & @CR)
    WinSetState("Untitled - Notepad",'',@SW_MINIMIZE)
    sleep(2000);
    ControlSend($hWnd, "","Edit1", "Second line sent while minimised" & @CR)
    sleep(500)
    WinSetState($hWnd,'',@SW_MAXIMIZE)

[_Kurt]

Perhaps look over this topic:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7112

That's for minimized clicking. I can't remember the other topic, but it showed how to send keystrokes to a minimized window. It involved a DllCall & more. Search around

Good luck,

Kurt

[Zamp]

Ok thanks martin.

Also, how do you use the mouseclickplus thing? I tried using it before by copying that whole thing into my autoit script, then putting in the _Mouseclickplus(blahblahblah) but it didn't do the clicking it should have.