'controlsend' not working as I'd like it to

[Maurice]

I wanna have a program that opens every (music-)file in a folder, so I wrote the following:

ShellExecute( "C:\Music\")
winwaitactive( "Music" )
sleep(500)
controlsend( "Music", "", WinGetHandle ( "Music"), "^a")
controlsend( "Music", "", WinGetHandle ( "Music"), "{ENTER}")
winclose( "Music" )
winwaitactive( "Windows Media Player" )
winsetstate( "Windows Media Player", "", @SW_MINIMIZE)

I used 'controlsend' so I can use some extra-key on my keyboard to open it, even when I'm in a game.

Now the problem is, it doesn't work.

It doesn't send anything to the place where I'd like it to send it, though I used almost the same term for something else and it worked.

Using "send("^a")" works fine, but even when I'm doing the @error check, it doesn't tell me that there went something wrong.

Now what I guess is that it does send it, but not the the right item of the music window.

Any ideas on how I could do that the right way?

And can I prevent the music folder from popping over the game I'm currently in?

Thank you.

[PsaltyDS]

I wanna have a program that opens every (music-)file in a folder, so I wrote the following:

ShellExecute( "C:\Music\")
winwaitactive( "Music" )
sleep(500)
controlsend( "Music", "", WinGetHandle ( "Music"), "^a")
controlsend( "Music", "", WinGetHandle ( "Music"), "{ENTER}")
winclose( "Music" )
winwaitactive( "Windows Media Player" )
winsetstate( "Windows Media Player", "", @SW_MINIMIZE)

I used 'controlsend' so I can use some extra-key on my keyboard to open it, even when I'm in a game.

Now the problem is, it doesn't work.

It doesn't send anything to the place where I'd like it to send it, though I used almost the same term for something else and it worked.

Using "send("^a")" works fine, but even when I'm doing the @error check, it doesn't tell me that there went something wrong.

Now what I guess is that it does send it, but not the the right item of the music window.

Any ideas on how I could do that the right way?

And can I prevent the music folder from popping over the game I'm currently in?

Thank you.

Unless you've changed WinTitleMatchMode elsewhere in your script, "Music" does not match "C:\Music" by default. Look more closely at the title of the window and what you are matching with.

[Risso]

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Any ideas on how I could do that the right way?

And can I prevent the music folder from popping over the game I'm currently in?

Thank you.

To prevent the window from popping up use the parameter -- "showflag" Also I would assign some of the code to variables - especially when you need to use it over and over. This will make changes easier to manage as you troubleshoot.

CODE

; This command:

; ShellExecute ( "filename" [, "parameters" [, "workingdir" [, "verb" [, showflag]]]] )

; Becomes:

ShellExecute( "C:\Music\","","","",@SW_HIDE)

$wintitle = "Music"

$hwnd = WinGetHandle ( "Music") ; The handle you are using is probably incorrect as PsaltyDS has already noted.

controlsend( $wintitle, "", $hwnd, "^a")

controlsend( $wintitle, "", $hwnd, "{ENTER}")

[Maurice]

Thank you! Fixed it with the 'WinGetHandle ("C:\Music")' thing

Edit: Oh, is there a method to stop WMP from popping over stuff when opening media files?

Edited July 27, 2007 by Maurice