ControlSetText

[sl_alagappan]

I need to pass on some text to a control and to press the ENTER key after the text.

When I use ControlSetText, I can'g send the ENTER key press.

command line as below:

ControlSetText ($ChildWindowTitle,$ChildWindowText, "fp32DateTime2x1", 

$Var & asc(13))

any other way to send the text and the ENTER key press at the end of the text?

[sl_alagappan]

need to send text along with ENTER key press at the end of text to an edit control also.

Bothg controlsend and ControlSetText fail to pass the ENTER key at the end of the text to the edit control.

any other way?

[CyberSlug]

ControlSend and ControlSetText only send alpha-numberic characters and don't send control characters.

You can try a regular send if the appropriate control has focus; however, this won't work if the window/control is hidden...

[sl_alagappan]

the corresponding window may or may not be active.

that's the problem...

[CyberSlug]

ControlSetText($title, $text, "fp32DateTime2x1", $Var & @CRLF)

EDIT: Hmm, this works in Notepad but not in, say, a set Font window. Is there no button you can click to submit the change?

Edited December 9, 2003 by CyberSlug

[sl_alagappan]

upon sending the ENTER key, application validation is done and some other fields are filled up with respective data. So, it is necessary to send the ENTER key press after the text.

[MattNis]

I don't think so....

I think when you hit the enter key, you are really activating some default hidden control (kind of like an OK key, that has focus, but is hidden)

Find out the name of that control and you can activate it even whe it's hidden.

[sl_alagappan]

there is no hidden buttons.

it is the normal practice of databse programming.

upon pressing the ENTER key, application validates the current field data and fills up other relevant fields accordingly.

[John404]

Can do a setEnter()