Problems with Window and Control Focusing

[kstokking]

I am trying to automate a 3rd party program to automatically log in and kick off an import feature. Ideally, I would like the process to be kicked off from a Web Service or possibly a Windows Service, but I am running into some problems. First off, here is the code:

$logPath = "C:\temp\ImportLog.txt"
$exe = "D:\Some Path\Some.exe"

$username = "username"
$password = "password" ;;;;Wouldn't you like to know....
$server = "server"
$db = "db"

$begin = TimerInit()
$logfile = FileOpen($logPath, 1)
If $logfile = -1 Then
   Exit
EndIf

;RunAsSet("administrator", "SERVER", "password");
Run($exe)
sleep(2000)

FileWriteLine($logfile, "Login")
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Exists?: " & WinExists("Welcome"))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Activate?: " & WinActivate("Welcome"))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Focus of Welcome: " & ControlGetFocus("Welcome"))

$state = WinGetState("Welcome")
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Window exists: " & BitAnd($state, 1))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Window is visible: " & BitAnd($state, 2))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Window is enabled: " & BitAnd($state, 4))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Window is active: " & BitAnd($state, 8))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Window is minimized: " & BitAnd($state, 16))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Window is maximized: " & BitAnd($state, 32))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Focus Control work?: " & ControlFocus("Welcome", "", "[CLASSNN:Edit7]"))
FileWriteLine($logfile, "Focused Control: " & ControlGetFocus("Welcome" ))

WinClose("Welcome")
FileClose($logfile)
Exit

If I run this when I'm connected to the machine, either through the console or remote desktop, I get the following results:

Exists?: 1

Activate?: 1

Focus of Welcome: Edit8

Window exists: 1

Window is visible: 2

Window is enabled: 4

Window is active: 8

Window is minimized: 0

Window is maximized: 0

Focus Control work?: 1

Focused Control: Edit8

What I can infer from this is that a window titled "Welcome" pops up, is visible, is enabled, and automatically becomes active. As far as I can tell on my screen, these are all true. However, when I try to focus control Edit7, it does not work (even though it returns 1). The focus stays at Edit7. Odd.

When I run the Au3 executable from a Windows Service (running under the same user), I get the following results:

Exists?: 1

Activate?: 1

Focus of Welcome: pbdw902 ;;;;;I don't know what this means, but as far as I can tell it's just garbage

Window exists: 1

Window is visible: 0

Window is enabled: 4

Window is active: 0

Window is minimized: 0

Window is maximized: 0

Focus Control work?: 1

Focused Control: Edit7

What I can infer from this is that a window titled "Welcome" exists and is enabled, but it is not enabled and not active even though I told it to activate and that function returned 1. I assume that the window did not activate because it's not visible - is there a way around this? What is also very strange is that the Focused Control for this DID change to Edit7 when I told it to, even though it didn't in the previous example...

I guess my basic questions are this, is it possible to Activate a window if it's not visible, or is there some other workaround for it? Also, how come the focus of the control does not change even though the function returns 1 and, as far as I could tell, there was no reason not to? This becomes an issue when I try to use ControlSetText - it does not actually set any text, I believe because it does not actually Focus on the control.

All of this is done on a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 machine. The Windows Service was written in .Net 2.0. I have AutoIT3 (downloaded 2 weeks ago).

Thanks in advance for any help.

[frostfel]

Im not sure what you want to do here can you try to explain it some more are you trying to log into a program and log all the logins/passwords