Control Text

[kiwikid]

Real quick question. Without displaying all of my code, here is a snippet that more or less tries to do the same thing. I want to get the text of a control that has focus. In this codes case I want to get the text from the start button. The Window Info tool says the Start Button has "Start" as the text. So why doesn't this work?

AutoItSetOption("WinDetectHiddenText", 1)
$var = ControlGetText("", "", 304)
MsgBox(0, "Start Button Text", $var)

[DW1]

use the class since there is no window name

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
AutoItSetOption("WinDetectHiddenText", 1)
$var = ControlGetText("classname=Shell_TrayWnd", "", 304)
MsgBox(0, "Start Button Text", $var)

did that work for you?

[kiwikid]

use the class since there is no window name

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did that work for you?

That it did. Thanks for the clarification on that.

[kiwikid]

use the class since there is no window name

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did that work for you?

To continue down this line of questioning, what command or UDF can I use to find the class name of the window that has focus?